Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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. >>> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information THEIN Onn Ming *photohorologer ming at www.mingthein.com www.flickr.com/mingthein