Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/02/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi I did not use any filter at all in the lens. can someone here post your picture up so i can see how it is ? i mean the full frame one without crop. thank you all for answer me Olivier >From: Guy Bennett <gbennett@lainet.com> >Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us >Subject: Re: [Leica] need input on Kobalux lens >Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 16:07:57 -0800 > > >Hi Olivier - > >Normally, vignetting is present in superwide-angle lenses. > >It is *not normal* in the newest Kobalux 21mm (I can't speak for the >older > >ones Adorama sells, both because it has a different optical formula and > >because I don't have one), and that's part of why the front element is so > >big. I can send you the full-frame scans if desired. > >See ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/dkieltyka/Kobalux21.htm for a > >discussion of the extremely low level of vignetting in the new lenses. > >If you use a Tiffen or B+W filter even the new ones will vignette. Stick >to > >Hoya or a thin-ring B+W. > >Dante > > >If the vignetting was due to your filter, you might also consider switching >to Heliopan, who mount all of their filters in slim mounts. > >Guy > > > > > >> Hi everyone, > >> I just test a roll of film on my leica M6 TTL with Kobalux 21mm lens. >I > >> check the neg. and it look like alot of light fall off at the edge of >neg. > >> both side of negative not top and bottom. does anyone has this problem >? I > >> check with kobalux website and also picture at Dante Stella website and > >> those pictures did not seem to have light fall off. these pictures >might be > >> crop out . > >> can someone who use kobalux please confirm this matter for me. is this > >> light fall off usually happen to wide angle lens such as 24mm down? > >> Olivier > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > >------------ > >Dante Stella > >http://www.dantestella.com > > > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html