35 Summaron f2.8 M Mount ?

[amyukie]

Hi,

I'm getting a good copy of this lens. It does come with a hood (Leica 12524) but no filter, so I'm thinking to get one. Which filter should I get? Yellow or UV? I mostly shoot BW films.

Also, are non-Leica brand filters good? for example Hoya, BW.. Should I get the MRC version or just a regular one.

Thank you!

Yukie

 

[kevin_v]

I would suggest both a yellow and a UV. A yellow is common for black and white, for example, to tone down a bright blue sky. The UV will be useful for the times when you use color to protect the front element.

 

[amyukie]

I was thinking to not using a filter when shooting color. Is there any benefit other than protection? I always believe filters do degrade image quality.

and which Yellow should I choose? Light, med, or dark?

 

[BobYIL]

I was thinking to not using a filter when shooting color. Is there any benefit other than protection? I always believe filters do degrade image quality.

and which Yellow should I choose? Light, med, or dark?

Yukie,

There are numerous filters for color as well as B&W film photography.

The only filter I would recommend you to protect your lens, to be used for color and B&W too is UVa.. buy a 39mm UVa filter, it will cut also UV-lights, haze, etc. for color and -if you try to notice- for B&W photography too.

There are color correction filters for color... google them.

For B&W there again are a number of filters of colors -mainly- yellow, green and red. You must learn them through internet again for they are various in effect.

BTW, while shooting B&W film the majority of the photographers use either a simple UV filter or none at all.. Filters with colors are for special occasions only.

 

[amyukie]

Great, I'll get a simple UV light then.. Thanks, as usual, BobYIL!

 

[ferider]

I respectfully disagree with BobYIL: many of us B+W shooters use yellow almost all the time. Good for outdoors shots, and good for skin tones, too.

I recommend a yellow/K2 MRC filter (Heliopan, B+W or Hoya are great - newer Leica filters use Hoya glass), and put it on all the time. Remove it for color, or if you need the additional stop.

Roland.

 

[hendriphile]

I was thinking to not using a filter when shooting color. Is there any benefit other than protection? I always believe filters do degrade image quality.

and which Yellow should I choose? Light, med, or dark?

Earlier this month I was traveling cross-country and when I took my camera out of its bag, discovered that the filter over my tele-elmarit lens was a total starburst fracture... you couldn't even see the front element of the lens behind it. Whoever did this (it was unwitnessed so I have no one to blame) added insult to injury by twisting the filter so hard that it "jumped a thread" and couldn't even be removed.

I left the lens with someone who has a tool especially for removing damaged filters, and... lo! The front element of the lens itself was pristine.

It was a good-quality B&W UV filter... but it paid for itself many times over by protecting the lens.