Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/03/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] new 75mm & 60mm filters
From: Jeff Alford <alford@batnet.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 21:37:29 -0800

Harrison,

This is Leica's strange way of making you use a high quality filter such as
B+W or Heliopan. Both B+W and Heliopan offer an extensive selection of 60mm
filters. Over the years Leica has used filter sizes that are off the beaten
path!

Jeff Alford

Harrison McClary wrote:

> How about because it is dammed hard and annoying to have to get either
> step rings or special built filters when you want to do something as
> essential as color correction?
>
> I know you shoot color neg, but many of us shoot chrome under adverse
> conditions and to say Leica is annoying because of the odd filter size is
> an understatement.
>
> Eric Welch wrote
>
> >For what purpose? The new 50 Summilux R is now 60mm. Seems that's the size
> >they've settled on. The more lenses they do that, the better the filter
> >situation will be.
>
> Harrison McClary
> http://people.delphi.com/hmphoto