sirvine
Established
Why is everyone having such trouble getting IR cut filters? I got E39 Heliopan with my M8 (because it was just in stock) and Tamarkin, Adorama, etc. have most other sizes that I need. People buy a $5000 camera and then act like it doesn't work because they can't locate an IR cut filter in common sizes which are in stock every time I've ever needed one. I must be missing something here. Maybe you planned to shoot a particularly hard to find lens size.
KM-25
Well-known
It is going to be really interesting to see how this whole filter thing pans out.
The IR cut filter is now taking the place of a protective filter, bummer.
You see, I often shoot in situations where a protective filter is mandatory. The auctioneer yelling spit with my 28 in his face, the blowing snow spray of a fine winter storm, the dust as the wind picks up at the cattle drive. All of these things put the front element of multi-thousand dollar Leica glass at risk. Enter, the B&W filter for $39.95.
If the filter gets damaged or scratched, the filter can be removed and replaced, the shooting does not have to stop. But now we have a expensive filter that is now part of the optical path of necessity. Are pros carrying spares then? If a pro is on a long term assignment with say two M8's and 4 lenses, are they carrying at least $600 in filters? What about the use of polarizers or other special effect filters? Are people stacking all that glass on a optically perfect 28mm 2.0 aspheric?
Hmmm....
The IR cut filter is now taking the place of a protective filter, bummer.
You see, I often shoot in situations where a protective filter is mandatory. The auctioneer yelling spit with my 28 in his face, the blowing snow spray of a fine winter storm, the dust as the wind picks up at the cattle drive. All of these things put the front element of multi-thousand dollar Leica glass at risk. Enter, the B&W filter for $39.95.
If the filter gets damaged or scratched, the filter can be removed and replaced, the shooting does not have to stop. But now we have a expensive filter that is now part of the optical path of necessity. Are pros carrying spares then? If a pro is on a long term assignment with say two M8's and 4 lenses, are they carrying at least $600 in filters? What about the use of polarizers or other special effect filters? Are people stacking all that glass on a optically perfect 28mm 2.0 aspheric?
Hmmm....
jaapv
RFF Sponsoring Member.
Daniel, yes, with a polarizer you MUST stack filters, as a pol doubles the IR contamination. Fortunately, one uses a polfilter 90 degrees of the sun, so the lenshood will cut all skew rays, minimizing the undesirable effects of stacked filters.
It took B&W two weeks to supply my special order 41mm 486.
sirvine said:
It took B&W two weeks to supply my special order 41mm 486.
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Ben Z
Veteran
KM-25 said:
It's already panned out. Whoever wants an M8 badly enough accepts the filters. Who doesn't accept the filters could deal with the contamination in post, could use a band-aid profile or the new "tweaking" in the firmware, could pretend they don't see it, could shoot only subjects that don't reflect IR and/or in light that contains little or no IR...but basically the filters seem like the simplest way.
I'm not a pro and I don't have an M8 yet (not because of the IR filters, though I still believe they are a stupid consequence, but because of such a high reported failure rate) but if/when I get one I will still have all those MRC UV filters leftover and will do some experimentation. If I don't see any ill-effects I'll probably keep one stacked to protect the IR filter. After all, what's one more suspension of common sense in comparison to having the wonderful IQ
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grduprey
Gene
I ordered the filters the day i ordered the camera, had the camera 2 days later and the filters arrived 1 week later. No problem getting the filters at this end.