Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aye, Malcolm.... The One Minute Man had a momentary Brain Fart! You are right. And about movie film.... are all the movie stocks cursed with the remjet coating like the old Kodak 5247 (memory may fail me here too, on the exact designation!), and can you get relatively short lengths? say 100 ft instead of 500 or 1000ft? If not, they might be a viable alternative.... With the advent of blue flash bulb, then later, cheap electronic flashes, I seem to think that that the demand for amatuer tungsten film simply faded! I have printed the old Seattle Film Works Film, which was the Kodak Movie stock, and other than a narrow range of lattitude, it produced good color- required accurate metering since if it was over or under exposed, the color slopes went whacko-gaga! BTW, I did a roll of the new Seattle Film and the emulsion has the code bars exactly like Polaroid One film- so whoever is making Polaroid is now making Seattle Film Works. - ----- Original Message ----- From: Malcolm McCullough <blayne@mbox2.singnet.com.sg> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 12:21 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] "Filters for the 75/1.4M indoors?"- Certainly!Especially for ne... > > >The filters are usually, as I recall, 80a the corrects regular 3200 K > >tungsten to 3400K for tungsten film, 80b for using using daylight with > >3400-3600K photoflood, then a deeper 80c and 80d. > > Er, no, I think that your memory has slipped a little. > > The 80C and 80D are paler blue than the 80A and 80B. The 80A is the bluest > of the bunch and will correct 3200 K (ie pro tungsten, or P2 lamps, the > temperature of B type film) to 5500 K. > The 80B will correct 3400 K (ie amateur P1 photoflood lamps, the > temperature of A type film) to 5500 K. > 80C corrects 3800 K to 5500 K. > 80D corrects 4200 K to 5500 K. > The bluest filter in the B+W line is the KB20 which corrects 2800 K (ie > household tungsten) to 5500 K. > > As I mentioned in an earlier post, anything helps - so when shooting neg > film I always use the nearest filter I can get away with in the light. Good > to hear Mark recommending the same. When shooting slides I prefer to use > the correct filter - which is why I have a KB20 for household lighting. > > Thanks go to Don Post for speaking up in favour of correct filtration at > the shooting stage when using neg. > > I'm surprised that no-one has flamed me for mentioning tungsten movie film. > > Regards, > Malcolm >