Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/09/08

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Subject: [Leica] M8 M9 Tech Comparos
From: henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2009 11:07:39 -0700
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At 6:56 PM +0100 9/8/09, Frank Dernie wrote:
>There is actually no reason not to use the IR/UV filters on the M9, 
>other than the standard objection to filters in general. In 
>principle bandwidth limiting the light getting through to the sensor 
>will make a sharper image with a non-apo lens, though I don't know 
>by how much...
>Frank
>

Except wideangles will have corner cyan issues; in the case of the M9 
not (likely) fixed by the camera firmware. It would, of course, be 
very nice if Leica did provide a camera firmware option to correct 
this, thus making it easy to use the two cameras together.


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