Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I have a B+W 0.9 for my Summicron 35. Let me tell you how much I love to stop what I am doing, screw it on, and then take a picture. What do you do when you want to use an orange filter - that filter factor is not really as high as 5x - do you then stack them?! Vignetting gets interesting, even with 35mm, when you stack two B+Ws. On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Jim Brick wrote: > A three stop or six stop ND filter works. Use a B+W or Heliopan .9 or 1.8 > ND filter. > > Jim > > At 08:34 AM 10/3/2001 -0700, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > >Hi Muhammad, > > > >Just curious ... why not use a slower film for daylight shots? I was > >a big user of TX, and, while I still use it a lot, I've started using > >a lot more 100 speed film as well. Getting some of that back ground > >out of focus and a bit softer is sometimes a very desirable, as you > >noted. > > > >AppleMac97@aol.com wrote: > > > > > I shoot a lot of TriX and TMax 400 > > > in daylight, and also color films of > > > similar or higher ISO. With the M6, > > > I am often forced to shoot at f16 and > > > 1/1000, when I would really like to > > > shoot at say f2 or f4. I like the > > > shallow depth of field of those large > > > apertures. > > > >-- > >Shel Belinkoff > >mailto:belinkoff@earthlink.net > >-- > >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html