Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/11

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Subject: [Leica] Hologon Fiters
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 12:11:58 -0500
 
At 10:06 PM 12/10/97 -0800, Henning J Wulf wrote:
>The center filters that Zeiss made for the 15mm Hologon
>camera and Leica mount lens is also not very good, having sharp cutoff at
>the edges of the center grey part instead of the smooth transition it
>should. 

Well, Zeiss put a LOT of effort in designing these filters precisely for
the Hologon lens, and they were excruciatingly expensive to manufacture.
The sharp cutoff was by intention, as that is what the characteristics of
the lens required.

Marc


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