Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This filter you mention is lighter blue to balance tungsten film, which is normally balanced for 3400K photfloods, to regular 3200K tungsten bulbs. This amount of correction is not hard to due in printing negatives, but 200K can make a big difference in slides. Cheers. Dan'l dwpost@msn.com - -----Original Message----- From: John Wong <john88@teleport.com> To: Leica <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 1:32 AM Subject: [Leica] Leica "Type FP" filter? >Hi, > >I recently bought a chrome 39mm Leitz "FP" filter. It was listed as "Type >FP - Photofloods", but the blue tint looks too light to be much good >correcting daylight film for use with photofloods. Can anyone tell me the >application for this filter? > >John. > >