Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/02/06

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Subject: [Leica] IR filters
From: imagist3 at mac.com (Lottermoser George)
Date: Tue Feb 6 08:38:25 2007
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Thank you Leonard. Your response confuses me a bit. B&H does not list  
an 87. They only seem to list 87C. ??

Regards,
George Lottermoser
george@imagist.com



On Feb 6, 2007, at 10:02 AM, Leonard Taupier wrote:

> For b&w IR film, I think the 89B filter is preferred for its ease  
> of use and not for the results it produces. I think the 87 will  
> give you better results. I believe the visible light that gets  
> through the 89b gives less of an IR effect.(a little dull).  I  
> believe this is also true in digital IR photos as well.
>
> I don't have an 87C filter and probably never get one, for the  
> reasons you mentioned and the high cost of that and the Hoya R1000.
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