Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/09

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Subject: [Leica] FIRMY Gelbfilter 2
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 1998 09:45:52 -0400

At 11:43 AM 7/9/98 +0100, Simon Ogilvie wrote:
>I was sorting through some old piles of junk yesterday
>and came across an odd Leitz filter.  It's a yellow screw
>in filter with a screw diameter of around 3/4 of an inch.
>It's marked Ernst Leitz Wetzlar, Germany  2* on the
>filter itself, and it comes in a tiny red box labelled
>Gelbfilter 2, "Firmy" 3.5 - 5 cm. 

The FIRMY Gelbfilter 2 is a medium-yellow filter for the 3.5cm and 5cm
Elmar lenses.  It screws into the front element retaining ring, unlike the
much more common A36 slip-on filters for the same lenses.  

Marc


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