RE: [Leica] veiling flare on 50/2

[grduprey@rockwellcollins.com]

Interesting, but my 50/2, latest version, shows nothing at all like that,
with or without the hood extended.  They are all crisp and clear as I would
have expected from a benchmark optic.

Gene



                                                                                                                                                  
                      Rolfe Tessem <rolfe@ldp.com>                                                                                                
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- --On Monday, March 24, 2003 10:13 AM +0000 "Beddoe, Neil"
<nbeddoe@lehman.com> wrote:

>>>> John,
>
>>>> Could you post an example of the veiling flare you're referring to?
>
>>>> Thanks,
>
>>>> Rolfe
>
> Have a look at this.
> http://www.leica-gallery.net/beddoe/image-40304.html
>
> The picture is a crop of a horizontally framed negative and the right
hand
> side of the neg doesn't exhibit the flare. I first thought it was the
> filter I had on the lens but I've since had flare without the filter. The
> lens shade was retracted (careless I know) which means that the whole of
> the front of the lens was in the sun and I would have expected the flare
> to cover the whole frame if the filter was at fault.   If you look
> through the lens at about 15-20 degrees to the sun, the patch of light on
> the paint at the back of the lens is very bright.
>
> This is a latest generation Summicron.

Neil,

With all due respect, pointing a lens without a shade attached into the sun

and then calling it "flare-prone" isn't exactly a fair test. I grant you
that the shade on the current version 50/2 is something of a joke, since it

doesn't offer as much protection as the older shades and doesn't even lock
in place. I use the screw-in shade made for the current 50/2.8 Elmar which
isn't an ideal solution but it is better than the built-in shade.

Rolfe

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