Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/07/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]at one time kodak supplied their series polarizing filters with a little outrigger duplicate mini polarized that orbited the main filter screwed in the lens. whether anyone today makes anything that accomplishes the same purpose i dont know. the kodak system was great and the original l600f hasselblad system had their lenses series 7 drop in(c.55mm)and the supreme wide was series 8 (c.67m) this being blind like the leica rf.it was a great system but like the sync terminals kodak used( lost out to the crummy pc) disappeared in favor of individual filters for each lens, instead of the series adapter rings. ralph > From: "Brian McCarthy" <brian@straightline.co.uk> > Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 09:08:38 +0100 > To: "Leica Users" <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Subject: [Leica] Polarising filters? > > All the discussion of the relative merits of filters here has set me > thinking. I realise that I have never used a filter with my Leica and would > like to ask how best to use a polarising filter with a rangefinder? Do you > look through the filter unmounted, note the position, then screw it on and > position it? ...or is there a better way? > > Brian McCarthy > > straightline design brian@straightline.co.uk > www.straightline.co.uk >