[Leica] Lens Choices - Final Installment

[george.imagist at icloud.com (George Lottermoser)]

On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> 
> Your question prompted me to do a little research.  I went through the 
> full set of images, and, in one of my discards, the 45-degree angle of the 
> fence wire is evident in the grayed out area.  Hence, it apparently 
> depended on the wire's position with respect to the lens.  Actually, this 
> was the best result of any combination of lenses and fence fire that I 
> have attempted, and there have been quite a few.  If you center the lens 
> on a fence wire "hole", of course, it disappears, but this is hard to 
> maintain with a fluid scene at the plate.
> 
> I also think I have solved the lens hood problem, as long as I keep the 
> lens on a 4/3 camera like the E-1.  I have a Pentax hood that is made for 
> the 135/4 lens, with the same threads as the 50/1.4.  On the E-1, with a 
> field of view equivalent to a 100mm lens, there is no corner vignetting.  
> I just took it out and shot a few frames of tree tops and sky, and the 
> corners come back clean.

thanks Jim - shooting through the fence makes sense of the diffused gray area

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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