[Leica] When the wrong lens feels right: celebrating vignetting

[jbmmllug at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)]

On Sun, Jul 7, 2024 at 02:04 Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu> wrote:

> Nice! You are a brave man posting a photo of your significant other with a
> 19mm lens ;-)


Ha!  In this case, I thought there was less funky wide-angle face
distortion than one might usually expect, and I chanced it!

BTW, an update for anyone here who might've been waiting with bated breath:

Yes, the rectangular-ness of these dark borders is indeed courtesy of the
19mm lens's rectangular shade.

And: the 180/2.8 Apo R does indeed do a pretty nice job of covering the big
GFX sensor, but I found that when I pushed my luck and tried the combo of
that 180 with the 2x APO-Extender-R on the GFX, there was significant
vignetting (especially wide open).  But really, that seems like an entirely
reasonable result.

-J



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> > On 19 Jun 2024, at 23:36, Jeff Moore <jbmmllug at jbm.org> wrote:
> >
> > Remember back when we used to file out  our negative carriers and
> > print with black borders, just to assert that "this is how I composed
> > this in-camera, dammit!"?
> >
> > I was thinking I could pursue the modern version of that affectation
> > by keeping the natural vignetting from certain 35mm-format lenses on a
> > camera whose sensor size they were never meant to cover.
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> > Actual Leica content: these are taken with the 19mm Elmarit-R (II) on
> > a Fuji GFX body.
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> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/albums/72177720318068146/
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