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

[Jeff Moore]

On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 20:57 Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:

> This is a worthy project.   It could also be done with APS-C lenses on full
> frame bodies.
>

Yes, I'd like to see that!

I realize that it's actually odd that the image projected by this 19mm lens
has a rectangular black border, not the shape you'd expect from the usual
round too-small image circle.  When I have that lens in hand next I want to
try to figure out if there's rectangular internal baffling/masking, or if
that shape is created by the lens hood.

And sometimes you don't get a dark border at all — most recently I tried
the 180mm APO-Elmarit-R, and it just boringly no-drama covered the full GFX
sensor.  I'll definitely accept that result!

-J






> On Wed, Jun 19, 2024, 4:37 PM 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.
> >
> > Actual Leica content: these are taken with the 19mm Elmarit-R (II) on
> > a Fuji GFX body.
> >
> > https://www.flickr.com/photos/jbm0/albums/72177720318068146/
> >
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