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Dan,
I've been religiously using the hood on my 35/1.4 ASPH, having read
somewhere that the first ASPHERIC 35/1.4 suffered badly from flare.
Now that summer has finally arrived in Chicago, I can stop shooting
400, and will try some K64 in bright sunlight without the hood to see
what I get.
Does anyone else have experience in this. I also hate the hood because
without it, the lense on an M6 'just' fits into a fogg M6 pouch. My
35/2 summicron (with hood attached!), 50/2 summicron )latest, with
extending hood also both fit. So will the 35/2 aspheric, and old
35/1.5 summilux.
Alistair
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Subject: Was: Noctilux and filters, Now: filters and hoods
Author: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net> at Internet
Date: 6/13/97 8:24 AM
At 11:31 AM 13-06-97 +0200, Harold wrote:
>Hi
>
>I know there is debate as to whether filters are a good thing or a bad
>thing. Personally I have settled for putting Leica UVa filters on the front
>of most of my lenses to protect them. I have, however, avoided putting a
>filter on the front of the Noctilux.
>
>Has anybody got some experience of the Noctilux with filters. I am
>concerned that a filter may degrade the special qualtities of this lens. I
>am planning a shoot of musicians in some rather dusty venues and was
>wondering whether or not to put a UVa on to stop the front of the lens
>getting a lot of dut on it.
>
Why don't you try taking pictures with and without a filter? Use a tripod,
try varying lighting situations (backlighting, strong side lighting etc),
and see what happens. Personally, I have never seen an example of a before
and after picture where the one with the UV filter appears degraded with
respect to the other. I like the security of keeping filters in front of
my leica lenses, but would like to know if there really is a (noticeable)
degradation in picture quality.
In a related point, I am beginning to question the wisdom of keeping the
somewhat eye-catchy lens hoods on the lenses. I took some pictures with my
35 aspheric summilux without the hood, in very bad lighting, almost into
the sun. There was no evidence of flare. I am wondering how many of the
LUGers actually use or don't use the custom Leica lens hoods. I am not
sure if a chrome body attracts attention, but those rectangular lens hoods
sure do. Forget about being a P/S with one of those on your camera!
Dan C.
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From: Dan Cardish <dcardish@microtec.net>
Subject: Was: Noctilux and filters, Now: filters and hoods
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