[Leica] IMGs: Finding the "right lens/film/sensor/camera" combination:

[Ken Carney]

Jim,

If a lens is vulnerable to a hot spot, it gets worse as the lens is 
stopped down.  Kolari 
(http://kolarivision.com/articles/lens-hotspot-list/) says that your 
Fuji 27mm is only useable at 2.8, which is probably OK anyway since 
you'll need all the light you can get.  Based on my experience with 
other Fuji lenses, I'm confident that auto focus will be fine.  With 
your Leica lens, you can just magnify and focus through the EVF.

Ken

On 9/10/2015 4:20 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
> In my mind, the "hot spots" have no direct connection to focusing, 
> unless, in their effort to get the total image focused in one plane, 
> they have created the hot spot much as one does with a simple 
> magnifying glass.  It could be an unexpected result of their pursuit 
> of perfection.  But, I could be totally off-base here.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 9/10/2015 4:04 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
>> On Sep 10, 2015, at 3:53 PM, Jim Nichols wrote:
>>
>>> What I have read this afternoon indicates that the latest Leica 
>>> lenses are focus-corrected to such high wavelengths that, for all 
>>> intents and purposes, no further correction is required.  Having no 
>>> intention of making such an investment any time soon, I did not 
>>> spend a lot of time following this back to its source.
>>>
>>> Another slant on this was that Leica removed the IR index because it 
>>> confused their customers, and that it is really only valid at 
>>> infinity, anyway.  And, with zoom lenses, there are multiple 
>>> correction settings depending on where the lens is in the zoom range.
>>>
>>> Most folks seem to feel that some experimenting is necessary to find 
>>> the most useful setting for the type of photography intended to be 
>>> carried out.
>> Interesting.
>>
>> Though my experience with the 093 IR filter from B+W
>> contradicts the claim;
>> at least for the 28 Summicron, 50 Summilux Asp, and 35 Summilux Asph.
>> Perhaps these are no longer considered the "latest Leica lenses."
>> Even if they did focus correctly;
>> they still all produce the significant hot spots;
>> and ever more prominently as you stop down.
>>
>> And yes the proof is, as always, in the YMMV pudding.
>>
>> Regards,
>> George Lottermoser
>>
>> http://www.imagist.com
>> http://www.imagist.com/blog
>> http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist
>>
>>
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