[LRflex] Re: Lens Reflections from IR cut filter - Mui Wo Ferry Pier

Hello Howard,

Very interesting, but this is a group of reflex-leica-users........socalled
Flexers?

Kind regards Fred.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Howard Cummer" <cummer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 3:57 AM
Subject: [LRflex] Lens Reflections from IR cut filter - Mui Wo Ferry Pier


> Hello Flexers,
> Well my replacement M8 is in Hong Kong with Fedex, according to the
> tracking, but didn't get delivered on Saturday. Monday is a holiday
> (China's National Day) so I expect the camera will arrive on my
> doorstep on Tuesday. In the meantime, Schmidt has given me a loaner
> M8 and so I have been out on the streets again. Here is a picture of
> the Mui Wo ferry Pier, where the ferries come in from Hong Kong
> Island, taken with my newly coded 50mm Summilux Asph, wearing an IR
> cut filter. I know that conventional wisdom is that lenses longer
> than 35mm don't need to be coded, nor are IR cut filters really
> required, but I have decided to code and filter equip all my lenses -
> so that I don't have to think about switching lens detection on and
> off for Coding and IR filters. Besides I like to know the focal
> length in the EXIF data. One problem, however, with using IR Cut
> filters unnecessarily is unwanted reflections. Please see the
> attached photo of the Mui Wo ferry pier.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Howard+Cummer/Hong+Kong+Pix/
> MuiWoFerryTerminalBWw.jpg.html
>
> http://tinyurl.com/29vhzk
>
> Cheers
> Howard
> (Hot but Happy in Honkers and waiting for Santa to come on Tuesday)
>
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