Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/03/30

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Subject: [Leica] CV lens recommendations
From: jviiret at gmail.com (Justin Viiret)
Date: Fri Mar 30 04:00:20 2007
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Hi people,

On 30/03/2007, at 1:24 PM, Jack Maddox wrote:

> From what I am hearing the Nokton needs stopped down to 2.8 and  
> that most CV glass is subject to flaring.. Super wide angles are  
> not my cup of tea. I generally use a 35.

Is this true? I've only really used the 40/1.4, but I've never, ever  
got it to flare. Not even once, and I used to use it without the hood  
all the time (couldn't get one until about 9 months after I bought  
the lens) . Perhaps this is only limited some of the CV glass?

jv

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