Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/03/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Clive those are impressively crisp and punchy. Looks like an inexpensive way to get some dramatic wide effects with the M8. Thanks for posting some examples. If the coding is functioning, presumably the best case is that the camera is applying vignetting compensation as though you are using the 28 end of the Tri Elmar. Clearly recording of the focal length has no function in this case. I'd be interested to see three things out of this: 1 Your lens shot wide open with lens detection turned off 2 Actual examples from a TE on an M8 3 What that lens reports regarding focal length. I suspect that it does not. In fact if your coding is working it must not. I know that there are special arrangements for the WATE to be used with lens detection on. That suggests that the earlier TE will just be compensated as though at its widest setting? Anyone out there with a TE like to comment? Pictures would be great. Since Clive has used lens detection but no UV/IR then the image is not being compensated for cyan corner effects, but presumably exposure falloff towards the corners. Maybe there's little practical effect with this lens and/or modest maximum aperture anyway. Perhaps it is not significant at all in this case. I have an M-coder arriving within a couple of days. I shall experiment with the ZM 4.5 21 and post some results. Anyway, most importantly the CV15 lens looks to be doing a great job in Clive's hands. Cheers Geoff http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/ -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+hoppyman=bigpond.net.au@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Clive Moss Sent: Saturday, 29 March 2008 02:21 To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Lens kit for europe So, instead of talking about the CV 15mm, I went to the Chicago Art Institute, and visited the Homer/Hopper exhibits armed with my M8 and CV15mm. No IR filter. The adaptor is coded as a TE. The camera was set to recognize the coding, no IR cut. It did not record the focal length. With IR cut turned on, it asks about the focal length, so it sees the coding. I don't know how it processes it. The linked images below are all full frame. See http://Clive.smugmug.com/gallery/4439406_GTT3H/3/271484640_ALANT/Large or http://tinyurl.com/2a8245 and the next three images. Incidentally, the Homer Hopper exhibition is with seeing. On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 5:29 PM, Clive Moss <clive.moss@gmail.com> wrote: > I got mine from Steve Gandy. I had trouble coding the 15mm as a 15mm - > it wants to treat it as a Tri-Elmar! Otherwise they worked fine. > > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:30 AM, <grduprey@mchsi.com> wrote: > > Clive, Where do you get the type II adapters? > > > > Gene > > > > -- > > > Clive > http://clive.moss.net/blog/ > -- Clive http://clive.moss.net/blog/ _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information