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Subject: [Leica] Will you put filter infront of your Noctilux
From: jsmith342 at gmail.com (Jefffery Smith)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:09:48 -0600
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I still have a filter on my 50/1.4 Nikkor LTM because I feel it to be 
totally unreplaceable. I have to protect my baby.

Jeffey



On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:17 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:

> Hi Sonny,
> 
> Following your logic, then old geezers like me, with Leica LTM and Leica-R 
> lenses from the 50s and 60s, can use protective filters without ridicule?
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sonny Carter" <sonc.hegr at gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 10:02 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Will you put filter infront of your Noctilux
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 9:40 PM, Robert D. Baron <rbaron at 
>> concentric.net>wrote:
>> 
>>> I've read through this thread and my eyes are starting to cross.
>>> 
>>> Isn't the first question what kind of camera are you using? And the
>>> second question what are you shooting?
>>> 
>>> If Jerry is using an M8 shouldn't he _be_ using an ir cut filter most
>>> of the time? Or should he be putting it on and taking it off depending
>>> on the scene he is shooting?
>>> 
>> 
>> The answer is simply:
>> 
>> With modern Leica lenses you don't need filters for protection, only for
>> light modification.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Sonny
>> http://www.sonc.com
>> http://sonc.stumbleupon.com/
>> Natchitoches, Louisiana
>> (+31.754164,-093.099080)
>> 
>> USA
>> 
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