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Subject: [Leica] Filter Info
From: nicholsj at edge.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sat Mar 5 14:46:37 2005

I had one of those filters years ago.  I think you have already figured out
its use.

Jim Nichols


> [Original Message]
> From: snoza <snoza@hal-pc.org>
> To: <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: 3/5/2005 12:06:57 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Filter Info
>
> Hi all,
>
> A little help in identifying the uses for a filter I just bought? (on a
whim, foolish me)
>
> It is a chrome, e39 circa 1950s. Glass is salmon/ peach color. Outside
rim reads: E. Leitz N.Y.      A
>
> The box it came in is very worn, but is labeled Summicron A.  Scrawled in
pen on the box (long ago) are the words, 
> "use when shooting outside with type A Kodachrome Professional color-"
Also came with a note in the same hand making reference to copy work...
>
> Looked like an orange filter for pan film at first, but I fear it is not. 
>
> Perhaps this is some sort of a balancing filter for tungsten to sun.  Is
there an online list of Leitz filters?   
>
> Thanks,
> Robert Snoza
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