Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Bob_Maxey@mtn.3com.com wrote: > > >>> Regretted using filters when they weren't needed. > > I would hazard to say that some sort of filter is always required. I > will challenge anyone to tell me a situation where filters were not > needed and I'll eat my Hat. > 1) Shooting indoors, by candlelight, portrait of child about to blow out birthday cake candles, with Noctilux at 1.0, slow shutter speed and Leica rangefinder. ISO 400 B&W negative film. No tripod. 2) Overcast summer evening, pinhole camera. 8x10 b&w sheet film, tripod. 3) $7 KoniFuDak plastic-lens, film-and-camera panoramic format throwaway. 200 ISO negative colour film, autumn morning (10am), handheld, vertical format cityscape. OK, what filters and why? M. - -- Martin V. Howard, Application Systems Laboratory, | Dept. of Comp. & Info. Sci., Linkoping University, | Just "DOHH" it! SE-581 83 Linkoping, Sweden. Tel +46 13 282 421, +----------------+ Fax +46 13 142 231; marho@ida.liu.se; www.ida.liu.se/~marho