Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/09/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]GeeBee wrote: > From: "Peter Dzwig" <pdzwig@summaventures.com> > > > Subject: Re: [Leica] #308 > > > >>GeeBee wrote: >> >>>Leica IIIf : 50mm Summitar f2 : red filter : Kodak T400CN >>>http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05308.htm > > >>Are you working these in photoshop, or are you using a fairly deep red >>filter >>(which one)? I don't find it easy to get this sort of sky on BW 400CN so > > (if I > >>believe Kodak) I guess that it must be that you are mastering PS as well >>as landscape photography. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------- > > >>Hi Peter, > > >>I bought some filters for the Summitar one of which was red. It looked dark >>to me but I went with 3 stops compensation and rated the T400 CN at 50. It >>wasn't enough and I lost a couple of good shots from being way too dark. > > The > >>shots that I have used needed a bit of work. > > >>The filter is marked Rh and I think 4 maybe 4.5 stops would have been more >>appropriate. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------- > > This is Kodak T400 CN with a red filter (x8) but OT gear: > http://www.geebeephoto.com/2005/05309.htm > > --Graham > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > Not sure that I don't like that one better...just a shane about the kit ;-) Reason that I ask os that I have been having difficulty finding a red that I like for either Summitar or Summaron. I do have a red (25a) for my elmar but that always seems to me too deep. thanks for the advice. Peter