Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi all, I have taken 50 or so pictures in various conditions and with 35 f1.4 aspherical, 28 f2.8 lenses and a 15 f4.5 CV to compare with the extreme vignetting observed by Henning. I can see that the 15 is emergency only with extreme vignetting way more than the same lens on film (I have used it a lot) even not taking into account the 1.5x crop. It is even worse than I was expecting. This brings me to the first question. I was led to believe that the Epson raw convertor had compensation algorithms for the various CV lenses built in. I am using the photoshop plugin on a Mac and can not find this in any menu. There is a vignetting compensation slider but even at 100% it is still inadequate to correct the CV 15mm. How do I find it? The results from the Leica lenses are very pleasing so far. I am going to the wedding of a close friend's daughter today so I may do a few candids with the RD1 and 35 f1.4 My second question concerns the shutter speed display in the viewfinder. At first I did not realise there was such a display but eventually caught sight of it by accident whilst moving the camera around. My eye needs to be well away from the centre of the viewfinder for the led to align with the masks with the numbers in. If my eye is centred I can, in some lights, see the numbers but I have to move my eye very low and left to see which one has a light shining through it. I assume it is faulty and will have to be returned :-( Frank