Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/11

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Subject: Re: [Leica] FS Friday!
From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 23:06:53 -0700

At 9:09 PM -0600 4/11/00, Noel H. Charchuk wrote:
>Leitz only made one Green from what I can find, filter factor of 3, which
>makes it a more dense than a yellow #2 filter. My A36 one is marked Gr, in
>one table there is a graduated green filter shown. Is your one graduated,
>or a solid green? I ask because they show it as GGr in that table.
>
>Your subject line said Friday FS, was that just a repeat of an earlier
>message or were you looking to sell it? Also, I was wondering why the date
>was Feb 11, but the message just arrived today. Strange.
>
>Noel Charchuk
>Calgary
>
>http://telusplanet.net/public/nhcharch
>
>On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Tom Schofield wrote:
>
>>
>> I have a 39mm greenish filter (Leica) That is marked GGr.  Is this a yeloow
>> green, light green, dark Gren, Or what?  It is a little different in color
>> from my B+W yellow green and another pure green.
>>
>> Tom Schofield
>>
>>
>>

GGr stands for  Gelb-Gruen, or Yellow Green. What the actual spectral
response is is probably their own idea, as is so often the case with
anybody's filters. The colors can also change with time.

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