Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/13

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Subject: Re[2]: [Leica] A really smart Leica
From: Sonny Carter <sonc@sonc.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:36:57 -0700
References: <11.18a57347.2c949841@aol.com> <3F638163.8FE698EF@rabinergroup.com>

Mark,

I don't think it really matters if it is blue or brown, or even green.
The whole point to a viewing filter is to make the scene monocromatic
so you can get a sense of what it will look like in BW.  The blue only
lets blue light through, and the Wratten 90 has a sepia look to it, so
if your mind is easily tricked, and lots of hollywood directors' are,
you'll see no color, unless you are in the UK and then you'll see no
colour.

Sonny
http://www.sonc.com



Saturday, September 13, 2003, 1:43:15 PM, you wrote:

MR> Afterswift@aol.com wrote:
>> 
>> In a message dated 9/13/03 7:54:08 AM,
>> tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com
>> writes:
>> 
>> << Bluish? I still have one of those viewing filters, they are amber (sorta
>> brownish). Made by AGFA. >>
>> 
>> It's some years since I took that movie course at NYU, so I may have
>> forgotten the color of the filter.
>> 
MR> What color are the ones from Calumet?

MR> I think the blue would be fore the western hemisphere and the warm for
MR> the eastern Yea that's the ticket. Did ya know white is evil over there
MR> and BLACK is good! (really I think)
MR> Just shows to go ya the grass is always amberer!

MR> Why would you color it? I thought i knew everything! :)
MR> Do the shadows need to go up or down?
MR> I like those John Ford movies. Filters R us. John Wayne rides in with
MR> white lips but the skies are great. The Cirro-cumulus are rumbling with
MR> the Cumulo-stratus. Look at the detail. And the  Fisher Towers, Utah. In
MR> the bottom of the background.
MR> Bokeh? Forgedaboudit!

MR> But then he jumps off his horse and his lips are black in close-up. Must
MR> have switched to ortho. Tricky lighting. Can't trust those meters.


MR> Mark Rabiner
MR> Portland, Oregon USA
MR> http://www.rabinergroup.com
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