[Leica] Lens Choices - Final Installment

[George Lottermoser]

On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Jim Nichols wrote:

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> Your question prompted me to do a little research.  I went through the full set of images, and, in one of my discards, the 45-degree angle of the fence wire is evident in the grayed out area.  Hence, it apparently depended on the wire's position with respect to the lens.  Actually, this was the best result of any combination of lenses and fence fire that I have attempted, and there have been quite a few.  If you center the lens on a fence wire "hole", of course, it disappears, but this is hard to maintain with a fluid scene at the plate.
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> I also think I have solved the lens hood problem, as long as I keep the lens on a 4/3 camera like the E-1.  I have a Pentax hood that is made for the 135/4 lens, with the same threads as the 50/1.4.  On the E-1, with a field of view equivalent to a 100mm lens, there is no corner vignetting.  I just took it out and shot a few frames of tree tops and sky, and the corners come back clean.

thanks Jim - shooting through the fence makes sense of the diffused gray area

Regards,
George Lottermoser 

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