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Subject: [Leica] IMG: the new Elmar M 3.8 24mm very first impressions
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Sun Jan 4 22:24:37 2009
References: <E95FFC638B5E45939061CEF3FB333EBC@dadquad> <7c7efb430901042201x3fcc7d30pb85b3ede6edfd828@mail.gmail.com>

Got me, there IS a plane element at the front if you look at the lens
diagrams that Erwin published! Erwin even calls attention to it as a filter.
I need to find some nasty tungsten light and shoot some tests tonight. 


Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
Pick up your camera and make the best photo you can.

-----Original Message-----
From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org
[mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of
Ken Iisaka
Sent: Monday, 5 January 2009 16:02
To: Leica Users Group
Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG: the new Elmar M 3.8 24mm very first impressions

Hmmm... interesting.

Built-in UV/IR filter!?!?!?!?

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Geoff Hopkinson
<hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>wrote:

>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/a/ns/E24a.jpg.html
>
> Now here is something I found absolutely fascinating. What can you 
> identify about the first frame indoors of the two guys?
>
> Hint, there is NO UV/IR filter on the lens as yet. These have not been 
> corrected at all and use the new Adobe Standard profile for the M8.
>
> Very very interesting to me. This is the newest firmware by the way, 
> which identifies the lens correctly.
>



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