On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Mishka wrote: > NO! > NO! > NO! > > the filter is NOT "an integral part of optical formula" of MIR-47! > just read the damn instructions!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I can't read Russian, but I gave the manual to a Russian colleague who told me he couldn't find a mention of the filter being needed in there. Plus there is NO PICTURE OF THE FILTER IN THE OPTICAL DIAGRAM! Yet when I dared suggest this on another photo list I was shouted down by about a trillion people who told me I was wrong (some claimed to have been told so by the factory). All I had on my side was the word of my colleague (who I know can be a bit dippy) and a picture in the manual, so it's nice to see someone else believes the same as I have always suspected. I think I am going to run a damn test this w/e with and without the filter. I should have done that in the first place, eh? Chris
