Re: [Leica] Filters on a 15 mm M lens

["Tom Schofield" <tdschofield@email.msn.com>]

Sigma made an ultra wide with a gel holder on the back of the lens.  You
would have to cut the gelto size (about 1 or 2 cm square).

Tom

> As much as it is usually anathema, another approach for using filters is
to
> put glassine filters on the BACK of the lens, essentially on the rear
> element holding ring.  The filters can be held on in many ways, but I use
a
> tiny bit of vaseline on the rear element ring, then deftly apply the
> glassine filter.
>
> Works great with a Nikonos!
>
> Frank Filippone
> red735i@earthlink.net
>