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...i use UV/IR filters with both and i rarely need to tweak colors in PP otherwise than by adjusting contrast and WB.

 

My widest lens at the moment is 35mm, and I'm waiting for the UV/IR cut filters and ColorChecker to arrive. Once I get all this I'll create dual illuminant profile with the filter on the lens, and hopefully get the colors finally right in the LR5. I truly hope this will work.

 

In near future I also plan on getting a 21mm SEM, and wondered if you tried any of the wide angle lenses with the UV/IR filter on? The filters shouldn't be used with the lenses wider than 60 degrees angle of view, and I wondered if the color cast is there or it was addressed in the firmware?

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Doing a personal profile is the best way of course. I needed one before FU 2.0.0.11 but not any more with C1. Re: UV/IR filters i've got a bit of cyan shift with them on CV 21/4 and Elmarit 21/2.8 asph (pics) but i have no experience with other 21s from Leica.

 

CV 21/4 coded as 28/2.8 # 11804, f/4, w/o UV/IR filter:

http://lctphot.smugmug.com/Other/M240-UVIR/i-F6hZt92/0/L/2140-L.jpg

 

CV 21/4 coded as 28/2.8 # 11804, f/4, with UV/IR filter:

http://lctphot.smugmug.com/Other/M240-UVIR/i-jWWLF2M/0/L/2140_F-L.jpg

 

Elmarit 21/2.8 asph, f/2.8, w/o UV/IR filter:

http://lctphot.smugmug.com/Other/M240-UVIR/i-6DTN3Jf/0/L/2128a-L.jpg

 

Elmarit 21/2.8 asph, f/2.8, with UV/IR filter:

http://lctphot.smugmug.com/Other/M240-UVIR/i-2xT7Jhd/0/L/2128af-L.jpg

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Thanks for the quick response!!

 

I really wish Leica could come up with the firmware that would include UV/IR filter on or off so one could use the camera with the full set of lenses. In some cases the IR contamination is not so strong or not seen, but in some photos it is more than obvious.

 

I believe this problem is worth the UV/IR option in the firmware as there are more than one lens that would require it including WATE, 18 SEM, 21 lux and many others...

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50N, 0.1W - was it shot in the middle of the English Channel?

 

50N would indeed be in the middle of the English Channel but 50º 56’ is about 16km north of the sea. I checked the coordinates against the figures I have given a couple of people who have landed helicopters in our fields and as you would expect, they are absolutely correct. We nearly bought a house about 25 years ago, about 1km further east, where the Greenwich meridian ran through the house.

 

It never fails to amaze me how simple these GPS modules are nowadays. I remember in the early days of the predecessor “SatNav” having to spend an hour re-programming the receiver after the power tripped off in a boat and where the receiver’s internal back up battery had gone flat, the replacement having to come from Japan. Not easy in a 15M yacht in very heavy seas, when you only have a 10 digit keypad and a 200 page manual written in English, badly translated from Japanese. You had to tell the receiver roughly where it was, before it would tell you exactly where it was, as well as lots of other data, and then only when one of the relatively few satellites flew over.

 

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Evidently you need the uv/ir cut filters from the M8 days as the built in one is not strong enough.

 

If you get a black going red/magenta and the rest seem ok, then use the filters or make a selection and desaturate the offending black. If it is an overall problem, filters are the answer.

 

And I thought that was solved 99% after the M8.

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jip - Would you mind posting an example and we can try and help if' date=' you are still here? A link to a DNG file would be best. Rick[/quote']

 

I shall post a DNG file where I noticed it tomorrow.

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I hear how this affects mainly wide angle lenses.... Does one still need UV/IR cut filters for say a 50 Cron?

 

It doesn't matter how wide or long the lens is, if there is IR contamination you need the filter, so basically it doesn't matter what lens...

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It doesn't matter how wide or long the lens is, if there is IR contamination you need the filter, so basically it doesn't matter what lens...

 

Cheers for the response - I feel like I was using a fact that affects something else. I thought the IR was more apparent on a wide angle lens, or was there something else that affected wide angles.

 

I guess I have to look for those UV/IR filters that are somewhere in the shelves.

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No the focal length does not affect the IR light, but the filtering effect of the IR filter is incidence-angle dependent, so the corners of the image may exhibit colour shifts on wideangle lenses.

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So sorry for the delay but here is a .DNG file of course the image looks okay, but if you were there you'd know the sky wasn't that magenta or purple...

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11005523/L1001020.DNG

 

Nothing more than a white balance problem. If you increase the colour temperature from as shot by around 1,250º to 1750º Kelvin, the sky starts to look perfectly normal for an evening sky.

 

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:confused:How can one judge magenta casts on a sunset?

 

Anyway, nothing wrong here to my eye:

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... here is a .DNG file. Of course the image looks okay, but if you were there you'd know the sky wasn't that magenta or purple ...

In Camera Raw or Lightroom, try White Balance—Temperature = 3,500 K and White Balance—Tint = -30.

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What I meant to say was that the image didn't look like reality to me, something the DMR or M9 does better in my opinions.

 

for me the DMR has the best out of camera colours I've ever seen in a camera, especially if WB is set just at 5400 and I just adjust that afterwards the green/purple is always okay left at 0

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