Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/02/21

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Subject: [Leica] Re: focus shift due to filter?
From: Jim Brick <jim_brick@agilent.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:09:43 -0800
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Jeez Austin. For criminny sake!!!

Jim


At 10:19 AM 2/21/01 -0500, Austin Franklin wrote:
>A claim has been made (elsewhere) that using a UV filter will cause a 'focus
>shift', which, would be more critical for a rangefinder...depending on how
>shifted the focus is.
>
>What are the facts around this claim?  I take a Hasselblad with a 110/2, and
>a magnifying hood...critically focus on something ~3' away, and I don't see
>a focus change with a UV filter on or off...and all my Noctilux and Summilux
>images are dead on focus wide open...and I do use UV filters, and I do a LOT
>of close up work...I would think I'd see it there.
>
>Perhaps there is some focus shift, but it is certainly not significant.

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