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Subject: [Leica] IMG: M8 Filter Images
From: Jim at hemenway.com (Jim Hemenway)
Date: Mon Jan 29 15:32:56 2007
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Hi Len:

I didn't know about any other Nikon bodies except for those with the 
Kodak sensor.

Unfortunate about the hoods. With any filter, I always like to use a 
hood to mitigate the filter induced flare.

Jim

Leonard Taupier wrote:

> 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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