Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/09/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Sonny, And no colour up here either. Regards, Greg Sonny Carter wrote: >Mark, > >I don't think it really matters if it is blue or brown, or even green. >The whole point to a viewing filter is to make the scene monocromatic >so you can get a sense of what it will look like in BW. The blue only >lets blue light through, and the Wratten 90 has a sepia look to it, so >if your mind is easily tricked, and lots of hollywood directors' are, >you'll see no color, unless you are in the UK and then you'll see no >colour. > >Sonny >http://www.sonc.com > > > >Saturday, September 13, 2003, 1:43:15 PM, you wrote: > >MR> Afterswift@aol.com wrote: > > >>>In a message dated 9/13/03 7:54:08 AM, >>>tarek.charara@pix-that-stimulate.com >>>writes: >>> >>><< Bluish? I still have one of those viewing filters, they are amber (sorta >>>brownish). Made by AGFA. >> >>> >>>It's some years since I took that movie course at NYU, so I may have >>>forgotten the color of the filter. >>> >>> >>> >MR> What color are the ones from Calumet? > >MR> I think the blue would be fore the western hemisphere and the warm for >MR> the eastern Yea that's the ticket. Did ya know white is evil over there >MR> and BLACK is good! (really I think) >MR> Just shows to go ya the grass is always amberer! > >MR> Why would you color it? I thought i knew everything! :) >MR> Do the shadows need to go up or down? >MR> I like those John Ford movies. Filters R us. John Wayne rides in with >MR> white lips but the skies are great. The Cirro-cumulus are rumbling with >MR> the Cumulo-stratus. Look at the detail. And the Fisher Towers, Utah. In >MR> the bottom of the background. >MR> Bokeh? Forgedaboudit! > >MR> But then he jumps off his horse and his lips are black in close-up. Must >MR> have switched to ortho. Tricky lighting. Can't trust those meters. > > >MR> Mark Rabiner >MR> Portland, Oregon USA >MR> http://www.rabinergroup.com >MR> -- >MR> To unsubscribe, see >MR> http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > > > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html