Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]hi guy, try the heliopan filters. they are very slim and at least with my 28 elmarit i can use the filter together with the hood and still the hood locks as leica intended it to do. michael > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: Guy Bennett [SMTP:gbennett@club-internet.fr] > Gesendet am: Sonntag, 20. Juni 1999 11:04 > An: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Betreff: [Leica] wide-angle filter/hood question > > lugnuts, > > put down that flame thrower, i'm not talking about uv filters... > shooting > yesterday in the pčre lachaise cemetary, i wanted to get a sweeping, > cemetary-scape type shot over the tops of the tombs, reaching to the > trees > in the distance and including a stretch of sky. as i'm shooting b & w, > and > didn't want the bright blue sky to turn white, i put a dark yellow > filter > on my elmarit m 24 then went to put the lens hood back on - it > wouldn't > fit. well, it did slide back onto the lens, but wouldn't 'click' into > place > as the filter (b + w 023) was now blocking the little indent that > permits > the filter to 'lock' onto the lens. i decided to remove the filter and > recompose my shot, including as little sky as possible, as i was > afraid > that i would otherwise get some vignetting. now perhaps this was a > non-issue, as i wasn't shooting wide-open (i must've been at 5.6 or > even > 8), but i didn't want to take a chance. now that i've set the scene, > here's > my question: to what extent will the filter, either alone or, in this > case, > with a lens hood that won't fit all the way on (unlike the summicron m > 35 > asph whose hood fits over the filter) cause vignetting on a wide-angle > lens, and will this only happen when shooting wide-open? thanks for > any > answers/suggetions you might have. > > guy