[Leica] OT: Safe Storage - now "day for night"

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Wasn't the nuit am?ricaine effect a very simple technique of putting a blue
filter, underexposing 2 stops and slightly overdeveloping at 1/2 stops?
A similar effect can also be obtained with a circular polarizing filter, but
with the bleu filter it's nicer.

> From: "Phong" <phong@doan-ltd.com>
> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
> Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 07:08:40 -0400
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Subject: RE: [Leica] OT: Safe Storage - now "day for night"
> 
> Horacio Sofi wrote:
>> "Fahrenheit 451" the film that Francois Truffaut
>> directed in 1966, and the real flash point of paper.
> 
> Speaking of Truffault, one of the  great movie makers
> and certainly one of my favorite, in his "La Nuit Americaine"
> (Day for Night), there is a mention (and key explanation
> to the movie title) of a lens filter that allows shooting
> a night time scene to be shot in full daylight.  For 30
> years I have inquired off and on, but never actually find
> out anything more about this filter.  I wonder if anyone
> here can shed some light about this filter, how it works,
> etc.   I am particularly interested in achieving the same
> effect in still photography.  Thanks much.
> 
> And by the way, it is a great movie by one of my favorite
> movie maker, with one of my first screen loves
> (Jacqueline Bisset).   Where does reality ends and
> Hollywood begins ?  Very timely question in this election
> season.  I may just have a few friends over and watch
> Fahrenheit 451 and Day for Night one of these weekends
> before election night.
> 
> Anyway, any info on achieving a  "day for night" effect
> would be greatly appreciated.   For once, doing it
> in color would be great, but I would certainly try it
> in B&W too.
> 
> - Phong
> 
> 
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