Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/17

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Leica filters
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 1999 20:04:55 -0800

It's strange that they would single coat a polarizer. Single coating on a
polarizer is useless, according to B+W. No coating is equivalent to single
coating, because of the inherent design of polarizers. The only improvement
is with multicoating. Polarizers are typically not coated or multicoated.

Jim


At 05:34 PM 1/16/99 +0100, you wrote:
>
>The present Leica UV filters are multicoated, the Circular Polarizer is 
>single coated.
>
>Pascal
>NO ARCHIVE