[Leica] 50mm Summicron v5 on M9?

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)]

Thanks for the posts and the links, Marty.

>>For a lot of people, it is never a problem
because they don't favour that sort of light, but I got caught by it all
the time, probably because of what sort of scene I like to shoot.<<

This implies to me that you replaced it.  Am I right?  If so, with what?

--Bob


==On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 8:11 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at 
gmail.com>wrote:

> And if you have managed to obtain a 50 AA Summicron and have had flare
> problems:
>
> http://leicarumors.com/2013/09/15/leicas-ceo-confirms-flare-issues-with-the-apo-summicron-50mm-f2-0-asph-lens.aspx/
>
> It is hard to adequately control light inside a metal tube when combined
> with a very high contrast optical system.  In this system internal
> reflections get very well transferred.
>
> Marty
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Marty Deveney <benedenia at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > The 50mm Summicrons behave on the M9 largely consistent with their
> > behaviour on other cameras - they are great lenses with a few specific
> > shortcomings.  The lens has plenty of resolution for the sensor.  The
> main
> > problem with all the six element 50mm Summicron-Ms is flare from light
> just
> > outside the frame.  It occurs irregularly and can be hard to predict,
> > because it occurs when there is a light source in a very narrow angular
> > range of the field of view.  For a lot of people, it is never a problem
> > because they don't favour that sort of light, but I got caught by it all
> > the time, probably because of what sort of scene I like to shoot.  There
> > are good examples (not mine) here:
> > http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/005wdK and here:
> > http://photo.net/leica-rangefinders-forum/0073Im where some ingenious
> > fellow built a baffle to prevent the internal reflection that probably
> > causes the flare.  These lenses are amazingly flare resistant with light
> > sources _in_ the frame.  On any digital Leica M flare is somewhat
> > exaggerated in comparison to film because the sensor is so much more
> > reflective than film emulsions.
> >
> > Marty
> >
> >
> >
>