Phil:Hi Paul
Quick question, do you have shoot an LCC with 28HR when shooting straight on - no shift or rise? have you had any experience with 28 HR on the 180 or 280?
thanks so much
Phil
Yes I shoot the LCC for even straight on shot, even with the CF installed. I have gotten away with a few shots where the color cast was not too extreme
and did not have solids (blue/grey/white) where the color cast always shows more. The 28mm without the CF will tend to show some noise in the corners unless you are overexposing a bit, and if you add a filter system to the lens without the CF, the vignetting becomes pretty harsh.
I have used the 28mm on a 180, and it worked great. On center, and 5mm of shfit. I actually pushed the lens to 7mm on one shoot and was able to use the shifts . I felt the LCC was very important on the 180 shots, as I did see a bit more color cast even on center. But details were amazing.
What I often do with the 28mm is shoot a single and then take a short pano from it with a crop. With the 180/280 this becomes even more simple as the greater amount of resolution really helps.
The 28mm will flare but not as bad as the 23mm or the 40mm. I have taken sunsets (shooting at the sun) with the 28 and many times the flare is not that bad, plus if you shoot one series with a finger blocking the sun the flare is not there (this is harder to do than one may think as you don't have a true view finder and Live View won't work here, so it takes some trial and error. You have to watch the 28mm when shooting where the sun is on your side, as that seems to me to the the worst time for flare.
I have modified a Lee hood, with their 95mm to 105mm filter adapter. This lets me have a ND filter in the the one slot and Lee's new 105mm CL-PL filter on the front of the hood. Their new filter is slim and thus won't vignette.
I can send you a couple of shots if you like, raw, with LCC. Just PM a email address. These will be from a 180.
Paul