[Leica] Erwin Puts farewell to Leica World

[Frank Filippone]

I have great respect for Paul and his technical abilities and his
evaluations.  ( and he is the newer owner of my son's WATE and is a great
host).  

While I have read all about it, and taken many exposures with the Sony and
all kinds of older Leica WA lenses, I just do not find the edge or corner
color distortions to be an issue.  I acknowledge they may be there, but
since I shoot mostly landscapes or travel, the problems are masked or maybe
better worded as covered, masked, out weighed, and unseen by the subject
matter.

I have seen all kinds of technically terribly images in the street and PJ
images, and no one mentions the technical deficiencies ( focus, movement,
color shift).  But Leica/Sony combo gets hammered by this thin glass plus
microprism issues on the Sony.

I have contemplated getting the Kolari Vision Ultra Thin cover glass Sony
body..... Maybe I need to make larger commitment to use the combination more
often.  (It is so easy to use native Sony lenses on the Sony body....   I do
that more often than not)

I just do not pay attention..... and magically the smeared color issue .....
disappears......

Delusional?  Practical?  Both?


Frank Filippone

Red735i at verizon.net

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From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+red735i=verizon.net at leica-users.org] On Behalf
Of Paul Roark via LUG
Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 7:23 AM
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Subject: Re: [Leica] Erwin Puts farewell to Leica World

 Frank Filippone via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> The ability to severely crop and still have a good number of pixels drove
> me to Sony as well. It eliminates a lens or more.



> There is nothing saying that you can not use your Nocti or 50 APO
> Summicron on it either...


Leica M optics are built for film or for Leica's digital model that has a
very thin cover glass over the sensor.  Virtually all other digital
cameras, Sony included, have relatively thick cover glasses over their
sensors.  The thick cover glass causes a curved field of focus with Leica
glass.

The solution that allows most Leica M optics to work well on the Sony is to
have KoloriVision install their Ultra Thin cover glass on the Sony.  That
is what I do.  It works great.  The older, very symmetrical wides still do
not work, but the re-formulated 28mm works great, as does the WATE due to
its retrofocus design.

Paul
www.PaulRoark.com

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