Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Leitz's old fiters
From: Alfred Breull <puma@hannover.sgh-net.de>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 06:12:26 +0100

Leitz's "rot hell" filter is a brigth red filter, which is darker
than an orange, but more bright than other companies' red filters.
There was only 1 Leitz red filter.

The 36 mm belongs to the early Summars, later 38 mm, not to the 
Summitar with its large front element.

Alf

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At 14:37 24.03.1998 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
>Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:36:09 -0500
>Subject: Re: [Leica] Leica filters
>
>The 'R.h.' is probably a 'rot-hell', or dark red, filter, Leitz
>FEOOG/13050;  the 'SL' is 'sky light', perhaps a Leitz FISKF/13075.  The
>Yellow 1 filter is probably in 'E36' (36.6mm thread) for the Summitar;
>this would be Leitz GBWOO/13085.
>
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