[Leica] Polarizing filter

[henningw at archiphoto.com (Henning Wulff)]

At 11:53 AM -0700 4/23/07, Tom Schofield wrote:
>How old are your Japanese ones and how old are 
>your 13352 and 13351's?  I doubt its a lack of 
>quality, but more a reflection of how well glass 
>and pol films could be cemented together at the 
>time.
>
>One more style everyone's forgotten for good 
>reason -- they had a pin sticking out the side, 
>and you'd turn so the shadow was neither to the 
>port nor the starboard (and thereby pointing 
>toward the sun).
>
>Tom

I have to agree with John Biava here. The Leica 
filters I had both had separation issues. I don't 
know who made the filters themselves, but they 
certainly weren't Kaesemann sealed. For the 
price, they should have been.

As John said, Japanese ones of the same age 
generally fared better, although some suffered 
from the same problem many other filters of the 
60's did: non-parallel faces. At least the Leica 
ones were good in that respect.

>
>On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:34 AM, John Biava wrote:
>
>>I have both the E39 and E 43 swing out 
>>polarizers.  The concept works quite well.
>>What does not seem to work so well are the 
>>German made polarizing filters themselves. 
>>Mine are both showing signs of seperation.  
>>But my japanese made polarizing filters are 
>>still in excellent shape even though the same 
>>age.
>>
>>   I seem to recall seeing a later version of 
>>swing out polarizer of the "one size fits all" 
>>( with adapters ) being marketed later.
>>
>>Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote:
>>   At 12:48 AM 4/23/2007, Henning Wulff wrote:
>>>Leica made a swing out polarizer in the 50's and
>>>60's in E39 and E43 sizes, both with integrated
>>>hoods. They worked quite well.
>>
>>Ah! You should write Dr Laney, as he failed to
>>note this. (But, then, his daughter and
>>son-in-law cheated a bunch of us when they
>>bankrupted Hove while claiming to hold onto the
>>intellectual property rights in our books, so
>>perhaps two wrongs can make a right! )
>>
>>As Dr Laney has let me down, I clambered over my
>>odd collection of slide projectors and camera
>>bags to reach my assortment of old Leitz
>>catalogs, and you are absolutely correct. These include:
>>
>>(codeword/catalogue number) size
>>FILPO/13,390 A24
>>(earlier, FILPO was POOEL/13,350)
>>FISUMI/13,396 A for E36.5
>>FISUM/13,395 A for E36.4
>>FINON/13,400/ Bayonet 40
>>(later changed to
>>FINON/13,394) A43 to slip-over the B40 mount
>>xxxxx/13,352 E39
>>xxxxx/13,351 E43
>>
>>All but the E39 and E43 filters were gone from
>>the catalogues by 1965. These two survived at least into the middle 1970's.
>>
>>I stand corrected. Still, the photographic press
>>found these humorous as hell and they do not seem
>>to have sold well, as ELNY seems to have often offered them at a discount.
>>
>>Marc
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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