Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/02/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:56 PM 30-01-98 -0800, you wrote: > >No filter available is multicoated like a Leica lens is multicoated. ANY >filter you can buy WILL give you flare, ghosting, double images, etc. under >many (seemingly normal) circumstances. Read Leica document #920-083. > >Jim No, ANY filter WILL NOT give you flare, ghosting, double images, etc. UNDER MANY (SEEMINGLY NORMAL) CIRCUMSTANCES. I don't care about Leica document 1234-5678. The original poster wanted to see actual evidence, not your opinions or some document. I use UV filter 100% of the time. I NEVER SEE ANY EVIDENCE THAT THEY ARE ON MY LENS. I put them there to protect them. I don't want to see eny effect of the filter in my pictures. And after 10 years of using my M6 (and 30 years of using other camera makes), I haven't. If a lens such as my 90 tele-elmarit, which is prone to flare, is pointed into the sun, I will get flare, with or without a filter. With a lens like my 75 Summilux, I never see flare, regardless of where I point it. But I'll be damned if I'm going to let tree sap, and other environmental shit cover the surface of my $2000 Summilux, as it periodically does to the $50 filter I have sitting in front of it. Like the original poster asked, please show me (photographs, not documents) the flare, double images, ghosting, whatever, caused by UV filters. Dan C.