Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Henning, Thanks for the info, thats much easier way to do it:) I actualy wanted to put the summicron hood on so that i could have a hood that a lense cap attaches too. But i also have a strong feeling that it will vignette. Thanks, Paul - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 2:59 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Summicron Hood on Summilux? > At 10:33 AM +1000 6/25/02, Paul Jones wrote: > >Hi Steve, > > > >I have been wanting to put an ASPG Summicron hood on my Summilux for a > >while, but have been concerned about it vignetting also. Would you be able > >to put the hood on your summilux and take a shot to see if it is okay? > > > >Thanks, > >Paul > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Steve Unsworth" <mail@steveunsworth.co.uk> > >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > >Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 3:19 AM > >Subject: RE: [Leica] Summicron Hood on Summilux? > > > > > >> Dunno, but it certainly fits. I have both lenses and I'd never thought > > > of try the ASPH hood on the old Summilux. > > > > > Taking a shot doesn't do it. It will tell you if you think it might > be good enough to get by and the corners don't get completely dark, > but that's not the way to do it. > > Put the lens (old Summilux) on the camera, open the back and put the > camera on B. Using a locking cable release, lock the shutter open. > Look a the back when the aperture is set at f/1.4. When holding the > camera so that you can look through one of the corners of the film > plane aperture from the baack. See what the lens opening looks like. > Now put on the hood. Does it cut into what you can see of the lens > aperture? Then it vignettes. > > You can also do this by looking through the front, with the lens hood > in place. Hold the camera up so that you can see the corners of the > film plane aperture through the lens from the front. If the lens hood > interferes in any way with your seeing the corners through the full > lens opening, then the lens hood vignettes. > > All this is standard practice when using large format with movements. > There you often get into strange lens positions with compendium hoods > that you have to wrestle into non-vignetting positions in the field. > Since I've written about this once a year here, there should be > further references in the archives. > > I don't have an old Summilux at present, but I believe the hood does > vignette. It's better to get the right one, the 12504. > > -- > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.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