Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/04/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Apr 24, 2015, at 10:54 AM, Jim Nichols wrote: > > Your question prompted me to do a little research. I went through the > full set of images, and, in one of my discards, the 45-degree angle of the > fence wire is evident in the grayed out area. Hence, it apparently > depended on the wire's position with respect to the lens. Actually, this > was the best result of any combination of lenses and fence fire that I > have attempted, and there have been quite a few. If you center the lens > on a fence wire "hole", of course, it disappears, but this is hard to > maintain with a fluid scene at the plate. > > I also think I have solved the lens hood problem, as long as I keep the > lens on a 4/3 camera like the E-1. I have a Pentax hood that is made for > the 135/4 lens, with the same threads as the 50/1.4. On the E-1, with a > field of view equivalent to a 100mm lens, there is no corner vignetting. > I just took it out and shot a few frames of tree tops and sky, and the > corners come back clean. thanks Jim - shooting through the fence makes sense of the diffused gray area Regards, George Lottermoser http://www.imagist.com http://www.imagist.com/blog http://www.linkedin.com/in/imagist