photorunner Posted March 30, 2007 Share #1 Â Posted March 30, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Has anyone had any experience with the CV 12mm f5.6 on the M8? Is there a difference shooting with and without the IR filter? What type of viewfinder was used? What's the optimum lens aperture ? Has anyone tried handcoding this lens? Â Herb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ChrisC Posted March 30, 2007 Share #2 Â Posted March 30, 2007 Herbert - Use the search facility. Start with ......... CV 12. This subject is mentioned regularly. Lots for you to read. Â ...................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrycioni Posted March 30, 2007 Share #3  Posted March 30, 2007 Has anyone had any experience with the CV 12mm f5.6 on the M8? Is there a difference shooting with and without the IR filter? What type of viewfinder was used? What's the optimum lens aperture ? Has anyone tried handcoding this lens? Herb  Herb, I used the CV 15mm finder. No filters. I shot mostly F8. There is so much depth of focus you could easily shoot wide open without any worry. All shot DNG converted with JFI profiles in C1. The color looks good, and Jamie's color profile can easily handle the UV/IR correction, etc. I did not worry about coding, etc. The picture in the resturant is ISO 1250 wide-open.  Cheers. Terry. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photorunner Posted March 30, 2007 Author Share #4 Â Posted March 30, 2007 Great shots. Thanks for the pictures and info. I'll have some learning to do with DNG raw file conversion. Â Herb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fguerra Posted March 30, 2007 Share #5 Â Posted March 30, 2007 you can take a look at this: http://www.fernandoguerra.com/siza/ Â most of the photos done with a canon 5D and 1DsMkII, but lots of them with the m8+12mm... Â Fernando Guerra http://www.ultimasreportagens.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
photorunner Posted March 31, 2007 Author Share #6 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Beautiful architectural shots very wide angle with no visible trace of vignetting. I was wondering whether you used IR filter and profile with your CV12? Â Herb Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fguerra Posted March 31, 2007 Share #7  Posted March 31, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) Thanks for the comments I did not use an IR filter. I'm still waiting to receive mine. Anyway i will have to find a way of using IR filters with the 12mm. Maybe the way some on this forum did with the 15mm.  I just developed the photos in CS3. No profiles. The vigntting with this lens is very small. Very easy to correct in photoshop.  Also small is the distortion, and that´s the main reason i like to use the leica on architectural photography, usually associated with other kinds of cameras other than rangefinders.  Anyway like i wrote on my post, just some of those photos were done with the m8. After renaming them is really difficult to remember which.  It´s a nice tool. Just love it. Just bad mine is back at leica. I got mine in the beginning of December and it was really difficult to give it back...   Fernando Guerra http://www.ultimasreportagens.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted March 31, 2007 Share #8  Posted March 31, 2007 you can take a look at this:http://www.fernandoguerra.com/siza/  most of the photos done with a canon 5D and 1DsMkII, but lots of them with the m8+12mm...  Fernando Guerra http://www.ultimasreportagens.com  not to hijack the thread, but those pictures are amazing, I also liked the audio track, usually I absolutely hate music with slideshows on the web, but this was very appropriate. I thought the timing was a bit quick, I wanted to look at each picture a little longer tho.  NIce work. Makes me want to go out right now and get a 12...going to berlin next week... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fguerra Posted March 31, 2007 Share #9  Posted March 31, 2007 Yes you are right Robert, it´s a bit faster... But i didn´t want to take pictures out or change the music...  This one has better timings... http://www.fernandoguerra.com/salinaslideshow/  But no leica i´m afraid, just canons  The 12mm is a no-brainer actually. With that price and the way it works on the m8...  Fernando Guerra http://www.ultimasreportagens.com Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 31, 2007 Share #10 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Looks like i may want one of these too. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sailor Ted Posted March 31, 2007 Share #11 Â Posted March 31, 2007 One of my three favorite lenses for the M8 (CV 15mm viewfinder but the Zeiss would be much better)- cheers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted March 31, 2007 Share #12 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Yes I know it is hard to kill our darlings isn't it? That location is wonderful. I would enjoy seeing it also full of people, I think it would be just as surreal in it's wonderful architecture. It makes me sad that there is so little wonderful architecture here in the US. ok, now I have hijacked the thread.. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted March 31, 2007 Share #13 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Looks like i may want one of these too. Â name me a lens you don't want and I will happily purchase it for you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 31, 2007 Share #14 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Oh your in your trouble now. LOL Mid range Tri-elmar. ROTFLMAO Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted March 31, 2007 Share #15 Â Posted March 31, 2007 And here I was thinking that the advantage of rangefinder was low weight-NOT if you buy ALL the lenses! Â But I would come to phoenix to be your assistant for a day just to see all that glass pass over the camera. Kind of like a surgeon, scalpel, suction, retractor, etc...28, 35, WATE, NOCTI, etc.. Â I have a hard enough time deciding between 21 28 35 and 50... Â The rule is having more than one lens guarantees you will have the wrong lens on when something happens... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 31, 2007 Share #16 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Why you 2 bodies. LOL Â I can still get it all in a small backpack and that is saying a lot. The M is certainly a weight and size saver just ask those Canon 1dsMKII guys with 10 lenses. I had a roller bag 2 to carry all that gear. I'm at half the size. LOL Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guy_mancuso Posted March 31, 2007 Share #17 Â Posted March 31, 2007 I used the 21 28 50 more than the 35 , which oddly enough is the least used lens is the 35mm Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
robertwright Posted March 31, 2007 Share #18 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Why you 2 bodies. LOLÂ I can still get it all in a small backpack and that is saying a lot. The M is certainly a weight and size saver just ask those Canon 1dsMKII guys with 10 lenses. I had a roller bag 2 to carry all that gear. I'm at half the size. LOL Â ok, going out to get the second body and 12 now...not. Â I cram it all into the domke journalist bag, the M8, 21, 28 35, 50, the sf20, and two more shoe mount flashes with slaves, that plus a carbon fibre gitzo is all I need for most jobs. It used to be the roller bag for me also. When you show up sometimes people look at you like is that all you have? It's very liberating. Anyway the best pictures I always make are at the end of the shoot after all the lights are packed away and it is just me and a fast lens handheld on the way out. Just how it works I guess. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisC Posted March 31, 2007 Share #19 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Fernando - As someone who has shot a lot of awful architecture, that's a wonderful building; and you have done a fantastic job photographing it. Fabulous work. Â ....................Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjmcsu Posted March 31, 2007 Share #20 Â Posted March 31, 2007 Fernando, Really enjoyed the photos & flash presentation as I enjoyed Barcelona too.Just ordered the CV12 & obligatory accessories! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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