Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: M8 Filter Images
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Mon Jan 29 15:18:11 2007
References: <68D41702-8B5F-42DF-AD56-94AD264867B5@comcast.net> <45BE7E84.6000902@hemenway.com>

I think there was another Nikon body with the same problem, D2H ? I  
had that body but never saw the problem. Right now I only have Tiffen  
standard thickness filters. Prevents the 21mm and 24mm lens hoods  
from clicking in. The Heliopan b&w filters I have are slim mount and  
fit just fine.

Len


On Jan 29, 2007, at 6:08 PM, Jim Hemenway wrote:

> Len:
>
> Your photos show the same results that I got with the Kodak/Nikon  
> DCS460... EXCEPT that with the DCS460, the photos taken without a  
> hot mirror filter were not as off-color as yours is.
>
> I used Tiffen, B&W and Heliopan, depending on price.
>
> Jim
>
> Leonard Taupier wrote:
>
>> I have just posted two photos to my gallery. Both photos were shot  
>> in  my living room with tungsten lamps as the light source. The  
>> photos  are crops of much larger photos and are as shot, no  
>> manipulation.  They show the difference in color of an image with  
>> and without a hot  mirror filter.
>> Both photos were shot at ISO 1250, f2.8, 1/20sec, tungsten WB  
>> using  the old 28mm Elmarit. The hot mirror filter is a Tiffen.
>> This is without any filtering.
>>  <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8+Filter/  
>> Without_Filter.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/2zetb6
>> The second photo is with the hot mirror filter. I can tell you  
>> the  colors are dead on the money.
>> <http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/LeonardT/M8+Filter/  
>> With_filter.jpg.html>
>> http://tinyurl.com/yojjsl
>> Len
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