Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/09/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Howard, This is quite surprising for me, if you have unwanted reflections with an IR filter I see no reason to have the same problem with an UV or any other filter. Did you asked Leica?, this can ruin a good picture, this one is very good but ruined by this effect. Saludos cordiales Luis -----Mensaje original----- De: lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+luisripoll=telefonica.net@leica-users.org] En nombre de Howard Cummer Enviado el: domingo, 30 de septiembre de 2007 3:56 Para: lug@leica-users.org Asunto: [Leica] Lens reflections from IR cut filter - Mui Wo Ferry Pier Hello Luggers, Well my replacement M8 is in Hong Kong with Fedex, according to the tracking, but didn't get delivered on Saturday. Monday is a holiday (China's National Day) so I expect the camera will arrive on my doorstep on Tuesday. In the meantime, Schmidt has given me a loaner M8 and so I have been out on the streets again. Here is a picture of the Mui Wo ferry Pier, where the ferries come in from Hong Kong Island, taken with my newly coded 50mm Summilux Asph, wearing an IR cut filter. I know that conventional wisdom is that lenses longer than 35mm don't need to be coded, nor are IR cut filters really required, but I have decided to code and filter equip all my lenses - so that I don't have to think about switching lens detection on and off for Coding and IR filters. Besides I like to know the focal length in the EXIF data. One problem, however, with using IR Cut filters unnecessarily is unwanted reflections. Please see the attached photo of the Mui Wo ferry pier. http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+Pix/ MuiWoFerryTerminalBWw.jpg.html http://tinyurl.com/29vhzk Cheers Howard (Hot but Happy in Honkers and waiting for Santa to come on Tuesday) _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information