Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 06:37 PM 12-12-97 -0800, Jim wrote: [snip] >that could be 1959 or 1950. This is also the article that a Leica lens >designer was quoted... "If we had meant for our lenses to have a flat piece >of glass in front, we would have designed them that way." The article also >said that "any filter adds aberration, very much like spherical aberration. >This will be more pronounced with thicker filters, but even thinner better >filters, produce this effect." I'm still waiting for someone to show me a before/after example of the detrimental effects of using UV filters on Leica lenses. I'm less interested in what effect some optical engineer at the factory says that a filter *may* have on the optical properties of a lens. I want to be able to see it. Dan C.