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What happens keeping the UV/iR filter when putting the lens from my M8 to my M6?


PasMichiel

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Don't want to waste any film... And don't know if it will be a color film or black/white one in the M6. I think it will be black/white. Although I find Black/white digital nice.

 

Because my 35mm has a sun cap I don't think I will remove the filter going from digital to analog sometimes.

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To be more specific: You will have a cyan colour shift, getting progressively stronger in the direction towards the corners.

 

The old man from the Age of the M8

 

I have the same trouble. Recently I bought an Elmarit M 28 with the Leica filter. I asked for a UV filter, and the clerk sold me the Leica UV/IR filter. I don`t have yet a Digital M, so I will use the lens for color and B&W. According your opinion it will be better to buy aother non Leica UV filter to take color pictures with my new `28 lens?

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I do this regularly, interchanging my lenses between my M8.2's and my M6's. I shoot color and B&W with the digital but only B&W film. I observe no difference in exposure between lenses used for both digital and B&W film that have the UV/IR Cut filters and those lenses I use only for B&W film with typical UV filters.

 

If one is to deliberately shoot B&W only with the digital Leica consider doing so without the UV/IR cut filter, use a standard UV filter instead to protect the front element. The added IR sensitivity affords additional tonality, particularly in deep shadows, when IR is present.

 

I can't imagine why there would be a cyan shift progressively towards the corners using the UV/IR Cut filter for color film. This anomaly is strictly an issue for the Leica digital sensor with the micro lens correction for uniform illumination.

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