Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/05

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Subject: [Leica] FS: 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH 6-bit
From: mingthein at gmail.com (Thein Onn Ming)
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:25:59 +0800
References: <C64EE4A4.4F8E4%mark@rabinergroup.com>

The Noct doesn't vignette? Are you serious? Ditto with the 50/1.8  
AFD. That vignettes even on DX.

Even the 35 cron asph vignettes...if only by a hair.

On Jun 6, 2009, at 3:05 AM, Mark Rabiner wrote:

> My 50mm Summicron does not vignette.
> Or it does but I never bothered to notice.
> Nor does my 50 mm 3.5 Elmar. I could easily but not that I'd ever  
> notice
> Nor my 50mm 1.4 AI Nikkor.
> Nor my 50mm 1.8 AID Nikkor which I used this week.
>
> Nor my 50mm Color Skopar 2.8 lens on my Voigtl?nder Vito BL
> Nor my 50mm Noctilux
> Nor my 50mm Schneider Componon 2.8
> Nor my 50mm El Nikkor 2.8
>
>
> Nor the "normal" lenses I use on my Rolleiflex, Hasselblad, Speed  
> Graphics
> of medium and large formats, Calumet Cambo NX, and Olympus Pen Ft
>
> If they made them I would buy anti anti vignetting filters.
> As I prefer darkened edges. Something I almost always do in  
> processing later
> in the darkroom or here at my laptop anyway.
>
>
> I was just curious why a 50mm 1.4 lens would need a 77 filter size.
>
>
>
>
> Mark William Rabiner
>
>
>
>> From: Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Jun 2009 23:53:32 +1000
>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Leica] FS: 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH 6-bit
>>
>> OK, someone has to say it ;-)
>> my 1.4 50 doesn't vignette and it isn't fat, with 46mm filter size.
>> Don't need no stinkin' DC motor or AF on your Summilux.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/6/5 Thein Onn Ming <mingthein at gmail.com>
>>
>>> Still vignettes, as does the Nikon 50/1.4 AFS which also has a  
>>> ring motor -
>>> to be precise it's a coreless DC motor whose lens elements sit in  
>>> the hole
>>> where the motor spindle normally goes, and the helicoid is  
>>> wrapped around
>>> that whole bundle.
>>>
>
>
>
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THEIN Onn Ming
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In reply to: Message from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] FS: 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH 6-bit)