Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/06/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Natscher wrote: > > I am thinking about starting to use KR1.5 warming filters and > occassionally circular polarizers with all of my R-lenses on my R8. I > shoot coastal landscapes with Kodachrome 64 and many of the resulting > slides are appearing bluish. We get a lot of fog and overcast days > during the summer. I can only warm up my exposures without filters only > if I wait until 2 hours until sunset to shoot landscapes. I think the > KR3 warming filters would be too much warming for my purposes and would > destroy the Kodachrome's neutral look. In adding a filter and a > polarizer to a lens, which one should be screwed on first? Which filter, > the polarizer or the colored filter, should be closest to the camera lens? > > Peter Natscher > Monterey, California USA > -- I'd check out companies such as Tiffen who make combination warm polarizers. They are big sellers I bet. It would seem best to avoid the issues of two filters and then aiming right into the sun. I usually go with B+W but with this I'd go with Tiffen as Tiffen makes them and I don't think B+W does. ...but they might. Mark Rabiner Portland, Oregon USA http://www.markrabiner.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html