Claim your filters from Germany

[mark harverson]

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Has anyone recently managed to claim their 2 free filters for the m8?

Edited June 12, 2023 by mark harverson

[handgun]

I did get mine but it was  three or four years ago,  from memory

Dave

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[tom.w.bn]

Has anyone tried to claim them in the last 10 years?

[Anbaric]

42 minutes ago, mark harverson said:

Has anyone recently managed to claim their 2 free filters for the m8?

Have you tried emailing info@leica-camera.com ? I've found them helpful with queries about other things, though of course after such a long time they might have run out of stock.

[mark harverson]

I have and I’m awaiting a reply

[pippy]

2 hours ago, mark harverson said:

Has anyone recently managed to claim their 2 free filters for the m8?

There have been conflicting answrers to that question for over a decade so the only thing to do is wait to see what Leica say to you.

One forum member did write hereabouts that he had contacted Leica in Feb. 2021 with the serial number of his M8 and they were sending him a pair of filters gratis. Conversely the 'La Vida Leica' website wrote that the free-filter scheme had been discontinued and I believe that this comment was made way back when the M9 was the 'current' offering......

Best of luck with the response you receive.

Philip.

[mark harverson]

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Just heard from leica Germany.

no more filters source them on eBay and camera retailers.

are there options from other manufacturers to buy these filters?

[farnz]

I would go for Marumi - a Japanese brand who was rumoured to be the supplier of some of the 'Leica' UV/IR filters.  I have some, they were very reasonably priced (from memory) and performed better imho than the B&H equivalents.

Pete.

Edited June 13, 2023 by farnz

[mark harverson]

Many thanks Pete

[Al Brown]

Last year for M8. Successful and free. They asked for diameters and address.

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[mark harverson]

Yup I had my reply from the same lady

[pedaes]

58 minutes ago, mark harverson said:

Yup I had my reply from the same lady

Mark - what exactly is your need? Do you want to see what difference it makes (I think black fabric is acid test)?

I am near you, and happy to send you a 46mm B+W to try. Notwithstanding Pete's advice B+W are ok. A couple of years back Robert White had the full range/sizes of B+W, but they have dropped the brand.

[mark harverson]

Which is sad as I’m just around the corner from Robert White.

thank you for the offer. I have one of the original IR cut filters on my 28mm.

I have a voight 50mm f1.2 that I used for B&W but want to shoot colour. I believe that it’s a 52mm

[farnz]

6 minutes ago, pedaes said:

Notwithstanding Pete's advice B+W are ok.

I didn't mean that B&H UV/IR filters were in any way poor, just that I felt that Marumi was better. 🙂 

IIRC Marumi UV/IR filters are dichroic filters whereas B&H UV/IR filters are 'hot mirror' filters and I prefer the output of dichroic filters because they appear to me to produce truer colours by blocking the infrared wavelengths more effectively with steeper cut-off slopes.  Hot mirror filters can allow infrared wavelengths to 'leach' in if the cut-off slope isn't steep enough.

Pete.

[mark harverson]

Thank you Pete I have emailed  marumi 

[pedaes]

53 minutes ago, farnz said:

IIRC Marumi UV/IR filters are dichroic filters

Pete - you never fail to amaze me with your photographic knowledge, and I mean that sincerely!

[mark harverson]

Well I’m finally down to my last camera until the other M8 comes back with its M9 shutter. Then I will mount the 50mm with IR cut filter on that and shoot with both. Never needing to change lenses again.

until I buy the old voight 75mm f2.5. 

[dpitt]

21 hours ago, farnz said:

I didn't mean that B&H UV/IR filters were in any way poor, just that I felt that Marumi was better. 🙂 

IIRC Marumi UV/IR filters are dichroic filters whereas B&H UV/IR filters are 'hot mirror' filters and I prefer the output of dichroic filters because they appear to me to produce truer colours by blocking the infrared wavelengths more effectively with steeper cut-off slopes.  Hot mirror filters can allow infrared wavelengths to 'leach' in if the cut-off slope isn't steep enough.

Pete.

Apart from some minor differences in color rendering, the B+W filters have thicker rims compared to native Leica filters. Some caps and hoods can mounted together with the Leica filter and not with the B+W filter. I do not know if Marumi filters have similar issues.

[farnz]

22 hours ago, pedaes said:

Pete - you never fail to amaze me with your photographic knowledge, and I mean that sincerely!

Shucks (blushing profusely) ya shaw do say thuh nicest things, Keith!

(I'm afraid it's the Engineering instinct I have from 50 years of professionally playing technically with fibre optics.  Still occasionally get things wrong though! )

Pete.

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[mark harverson]

Came up with a marumi uv IR filter. No mention of “cut”. Is it one and the same?