[Leica] B+W 486 filter

[msadat at gmail.com (mehrdad)]

why r u using ir cut filters with d2x?

On 3/28/07, Robert Rose <robert.rose@mac.com> wrote:
> Yes, IR is an issue on other cameras, but beware of the cutoff filter Cure
> on really wide angles on any brand of digital camera.  Here is my sad 
> story:
>
> I have a Heliopan 77mm UV/IR cutoff filter which I put on a Nikon 17-55
> lens, on a D2X.  I took some otherwise decent snow pictures in Yosemite, at
> 17mm.  All of these pictures show very strong cyan vignetting, and will 
> have
> to be printed in b&w.  Not a total loss, but aggravating and caused solely
> because I was being too smart.
>
> That cutoff filter is now on a Nikon f/2.8 70-200, and I am happy again.
> BTW, that lens on a D2X is simply superb.
>
> I bought B+W 486 filters for my 28, 35, 50, 90 and 135mm Leica lenses.  As
> you say end of story, except for the 28mm, and that lens is going to be
> coded.  In snow I can can see some cyan vignetting, otherwise it is
> invisible.
>
> Cheers,
> Bob Rose
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:43:35 +0000
> From: "Ken Iisaka" <ken@iisaka.org>
> Subject: [Leica] B+W 486 filter
> To: lug@leica-users.org
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> While I am still waiting for filters to arrive from Leica, I managed to 
> snag
> a B+W 486 filter from Adorama.
>
> While the chrome ring is not an ideal match for my black lens, but it
> completely solves the magenta problem. End of story. Soon I will forget 
> that
> the filter is even there.
>
> I have noticed thought that it really is not an uncommon problem with many
> digital cameras. I just never really paid that much attention to it, but I
> now see it everywhere.
>
>
>
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