Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/16

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Subject: [Leica] Tri-Elmar Question
From: dstate1 at hotmail.com (Dan States)
Date: Mon Jan 16 16:55:47 2006

I too encountered this tendancy.  I seemed to occur at the strangest times, 
not only when in direct light, but also those "hazy bright" days.  If it was 
an SLR it would be predictable but in an RF camera you only know about it 
when you print your film...

Best wishes
Dan


>From: Ian Watts <i.watts@virgin.net>
>Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>To: lug@leica-users.org
>Subject: [Leica] Tri-Elmar Question
>Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 23:41:06 +0000
>
>>  EricC wrote:
>>
>>I have the opportunity to buy the latest version Tri-Elmar used.
>>However, on looking back through the archives I see that there have  been
>>problems with regards to flare, especially at the 50mm setting.
>>
>>Does anyone, or more specifically, any Tri-Elmar owner on the group  have 
>>any
>>information with regards to the above? Or am I just worrying about  a 
>>couple
>>of isolated incidents?
>
>
>Eric, I experienced exactly this issue when I owned a Tri-Elmar two  or 
>three years ago. It was probably the clinching factor in my  decision to 
>sell the lens but was not the only issue that I had with  it. The flare 
>issue was an uncommon but totally unpredictable  tendency to exhibit 
>veiling glare. This was with the hood in place  and without any filters and 
>occurred in situations that I wouldn't  have considered particularly 
>flare-prone. It only affected the 50mm  setting.
>
>Ian Watts.
>
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