Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/06/26

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Subject: [Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!
From: hoppyman at bigpond.net.au (Geoff Hopkinson)
Date: Thu Jun 26 16:28:17 2008
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Hi Sonny and welcome home. That is one position. I know that you have long
been an advocate of going 'commando' with your lenses ;-) Other folks have
different views. I wasn't expressing my view this time around, only saying
that everyone will decide for themselves with no need for everyone to agree.
I don't think that anyone will change anyone else's view, do you? As we both
said, the equation has changed now with the UV/IR and the M8. It's great
that people have passionate views on all sorts of aspects of photography. I
certainly have a lot of those too ;-)

Cheers
Geoff
http://www.pbase.com/hoppyman/e
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/gh/
-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: [Leica] Ah! Back to the Great Filter Dispute!

The simple answer is that you don't need filters except to change the light
artistically, and of course the ir cut filters.  That is modern Leica
lenses, from forty years ago or so.  Not just my stance, Leica people in
Solms mocked me for using an IR on my 28 Elmarit.

If you are fearful of  protecting your front element, then perhaps you've
found yourself in too severe a locale for your own breathing or vision
safety?


-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com
Natchitoches, Louisiana
USA


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 8:51 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hoppyman@bigpond.net.au>
wrote:

> I hear you Marc. I feel like I have been here long enough now to have been
> in a least one previous incarnation of this topic.
> I don't understand the polarised positions on filters. Use them or not as
> you want.

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