Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:47 16/07/97 EDT, you wrote: >Joe Bernbaum wrote: > ><<<I'm going to be experimenting with weak blue filters soon and see if I >can>get something more like what I want. Er, with my M6, of course.>>> > >Hi Joe, >I think it's possible I'm missing something here. >May I ask a question? >Why wouldn't you just use a 64T or 160T or 320T film? Then you don't have >to>fiddle with a piece of "blue glass" in front of your very expensive L>eica lens. >:) >ted Ah yes, I didn't explain that part. I have used those films in the past but now for some crazy reason I want my slides to be printable in 50 years time, wherever possible. So does my daughter, who will be in a position to do this even if I do not live to be 97! With some things you just don't have any choice at all, for example with Infrared Ektachrome which is one of my favourite films; you either use it or you don't, there is no other way of geting the same picture (although I do now have an Illumitran and am going to experiment with copying Ifrared Ektachrome originals onto Kodachrome 25). But with night photography in city centres etc I do have a choice and so I want to use Kodachrome. So I'd rather put some moderately expensive blue glass in front of my very expensive Leica lens and have slides that are as near permanent as I can have, rather than have a bunch of slides that may be only a relatively transient record of what I wanted to portray. Joe Berenbaum