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Subject: [Leica] WTB: Series 5.5 filters
From: eric.calderwood at btinternet.com (Eric Calderwood)
Date: Sat Mar 17 11:15:22 2007

No problem.
Glad you managed to get them.

Regards
Eric


On 17/3/07 14:36, "Ian Piper" <ianpiper@mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the information Eric,
> 
> I just bought both items from Peter Walnes.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Ian.
> --
> 
> On 17 Mar 2007, at 8:54 am, Eric Calderwood wrote:
> 
>> I have just seen the following for sale used, in the UK :
>> 
>> http://www.peterwalnes.com/index.php?
>> option=com_virtuemart&page=shop.browse&
>> category_id=20&keyword=&manufacturer_id=0&Itemid=1&orderby=%7Bvm%
>> 7D_product.
>> product_sku&limit=50&limitstart=30
>> 
>> A Series 5.5 UVa filter and a Series 5.5 retaining ring.
>> 
>> Regards
>> Eric
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 17/3/07 03:59, "Henning Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> At 11:54 PM +0000 3/16/07, Ian Piper wrote:
>>>> I think I read that here a while back, but unfortunately I cannot
>>>> find *any* information on new Series 5.5 filters. I have looked at a
>>>> range of sites offering B+W or Heliopan filters, for example, and
>>>> have not found any reference to Series 5.5 filters. If you know of a
>>>> link to a specific resource somewhere that would be extremely
>>>> useful.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Ian.
>>>> --
>>> 
>>> Heliopan still lists Series 5.5 in most colours for B&W in their
>>> catalog. List price is 21.50 Euro, so if you order them you'll pay
>>> somewhere around 17 Euro each, I would think. The multicoated and
>>> polarizers don't seem to be available, but would be possible to get
>>> on special order. You could order these from Heliopan directly, but a
>>> better source is (as I've written a number of times in the last month
>>> :-)):
>>> 
>>> Sally Neureuther
>>> FOTO MAYR
>>> sneureuther@fotomayr.de
>>> 
>>> I've ordered filters from her, received them in less than 2 weeks and
>>> the prices were decent. You'll pay more for them if you order them
>>> from someplace in the States, and you'll wait a _long_ time.
>>> 
>>> BTW, my experiences with Harrison and Harrison filters has been
>>> terrible. I had a couple of theirs, found they were bad, and checked
>>> a local camera store for the quality of the ones they had. I don't
>>> think I found one good one among about 50. The surfaces weren't
>>> parallel. This defect is least important with normal lenses, and gets
>>> more and more important the wider or longer you go, but it's bad in
>>> any case.
>>> 
>>> This was in the mid-70's, so maybe they got their act together even
>>> though at that time they also were the major supplier to the movie
>>> industry.
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 16 Mar 2007, at 1:23 pm, John Collier wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> You can still order them new.
>>>>> 
>>>>> John Collier
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 16-Mar-07, at 4:31 AM, Vick Ko wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Me too.
>>>>>> DAG has a 5.5 SL filter, but with coating blemish.
>>>>>> I haven't been able to find any other.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Ian Piper wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I'm after a skylight filter (the one on my CL Summicron 40 has
>>>>>> a slight
>>>>>> surface blemish) and whatever coloured filters I can find. Let
>>>>>> me know if
>>>>>> you have any that you would be willing to sell.
>>>>> 
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