First photos with my coded WATE on an M8

[Vickko]

First impression, without the Milich UV/IR filter, was HOLY MAGNETA CAST !!!! The lens is virtually unusable. I was shooting outside, a beautiful sunny day up here, and magenta everywhere.

So, I put on the UV/IR and much much better.

I didn't think it would be so bad. I think I've shot other lenses without the UV/IR filter before and never got such horrendous results.

Is it because of the short focal length, that drives the need for the UV/IR filtration?

I thought the short focal length drove the need to code the lens.

....Vick

 

[DrDick]

Vick,
I never actually used my WATE on M8 without the Milich holder & IR filter. No problems using this combination. My issue with it was forgetting after a quick lens change to tell the M8 I was at 16mm. As you know it defaults to 18mm. This then causes inadequate cyan correction in the corners which proves very difficult to eradicate in post processing.
Dick

 

[ampguy]

This is interesting. Never had a WATE, but played around with a CV 15 coded as different WATE FL's, eventually finding the best solution was no coding.

Some folks say the different FL's don't do anything except encode the fl in EXIF metadata file. I think Sean Reid showed some subtle differences in coding at different FL's at one time.

Perhaps the firmware changed at some point to either do nothing, or to just do a single correction for all 3 lengths.