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I was feeling a bit testy yesterday after our Vikings literally dropped the ball.
Turn in your membership card, Jono. Actually, though, I am very pleased to hear that. I do so love the compact nature of the M system, and am relieved to have permission to go hoodless (is that a form of going naked?)
No worries - I didn't take it personally, because generally speaking I really don't feel that I do it (the purist snobbery bit).
Absolutely - back to basics! (I've recently rediscovered how completely brilliant the leica carrying strap is)
Tom,
Anyway her concerts are either in a church or auditorium with mixed sources of light and the chorus singers are all dressed in black! With the M8 (and I assume with the M9 too,) I have to use IR cut filters at these concerts because tweaking each keeper takes far too much time (and frankly, my correction profiles "ain't that good".) So I have either a Leica or B&W cut filter for each lens. My point is there are reasons to keep those cut filters handy if you are shooting under conditions that will produce lots of magenta cast.
:ROTFL:Tom,
My wife conducts the Victoria Civic Chorus and because she sleeps with me, gave birth to our twins, doesn't give a hoot how much I spend on camera gear, and is the perfect wife, I photograph her concerts for her. (I know I know, did she get the short stick on this deal or what :ROTFL
Don't assume that you have to with the M9 as well - it isn't a good assumption.
The M9 really is a different beast in this respect - you CAN SOMETIMES see some magenta - especially in bags and suchlike, but in 3 weddings I never saw it once, and the only time I've seen it 'in anger' it took a small magenta desaturation to remove it. With the M8 filters were vital - even outside (if you didn't want nasty yellow greens).
Cyan corners are certainly not easier to correct (Sean Reid found them wider than 50mm on the M9), nor is the rather odd colour balance that I saw using filters on the M9.
Better the gear than the person using it, Jono. :ROTFL:
Jono, don't tell me you follow American football.
No, I'm sorry to disappoint you - I don't even follow English Football! Simply that there are lots of things I could be accused of which would make me very unhappy (the ones I'm guilty of) . . . . but purist snob isn't really one of them!
Well, I guess that all depends doesn't it?
Whoa..., this is good news to me... I hope. As you said, the cut filters stayed on my M8 lenses all the time, they had to. Will have to do some testing before my wife's spring chorus concert as the range of clothing used on stage varies from the highly reflective to the fine wool from your part of the world.
It's the shorter lenses you have to worry about. Feel free to leave IR cut filters on longer lenses. 50mm lenses might just have noticeably cyan corners with IR cut filters, 35mm will have definitely cyan corners but might still be OK, depending on your sensitivity and subject matters (large evenly lit neutral surfaces show up cyan corners easiest). 28mm lenses and shorter are definitely problematic. The off-colour blacks are a lot easier to deal with, even if you have a lot of pictures than trying to deal with cyan corners, a lot of pictures or not.
I disagree with this quite radically - you won't get funny corners, but (IMHO of course) you WILL get less good colour in natural light.
