[Leica] Polarizing filter

[tomschofield at comcast.net (Tom Schofield)]

How old are your Japanese ones and how old are your 13352 and  
13351's?  I doubt its a lack of quality, but more a reflection of how  
well glass and pol films could be cemented together at the time.

One more style everyone's forgotten for good reason -- they had a pin  
sticking out the side, and you'd turn so the shadow was neither to  
the port nor the starboard (and thereby pointing toward the sun).

Tom


On Apr 23, 2007, at 8:34 AM, John Biava wrote:

> I have both the E39 and E 43 swing out polarizers.  The concept  
> works quite well.
> What does not seem to work so well are the German made polarizing  
> filters themselves.  Mine are both showing signs of seperation.   
> But my japanese made polarizing filters are still in excellent  
> shape even though the same age.
>
>   I seem to recall seeing a later version of swing out polarizer of  
> the "one size fits all" ( with adapters ) being marketed later.
>
> Marc James Small <marcsmall@comcast.net> wrote:
>   At 12:48 AM 4/23/2007, Henning Wulff wrote:
>> Leica made a swing out polarizer in the 50's and
>> 60's in E39 and E43 sizes, both with integrated
>> hoods. They worked quite well.
>
> Ah! You should write Dr Laney, as he failed to
> note this. (But, then, his daughter and
> son-in-law cheated a bunch of us when they
> bankrupted Hove while claiming to hold onto the
> intellectual property rights in our books, so
> perhaps two wrongs can make a right! )
>
> As Dr Laney has let me down, I clambered over my
> odd collection of slide projectors and camera
> bags to reach my assortment of old Leitz
> catalogs, and you are absolutely correct. These include:
>
> (codeword/catalogue number) size
> FILPO/13,390 A24
> (earlier, FILPO was POOEL/13,350)
> FISUMI/13,396 A for E36.5
> FISUM/13,395 A for E36.4
> FINON/13,400/ Bayonet 40
> (later changed to
> FINON/13,394) A43 to slip-over the B40 mount
> xxxxx/13,352 E39
> xxxxx/13,351 E43
>
> All but the E39 and E43 filters were gone from
> the catalogues by 1965. These two survived at least into the middle  
> 1970's.
>
> I stand corrected. Still, the photographic press
> found these humorous as hell and they do not seem
> to have sold well, as ELNY seems to have often offered them at a  
> discount.
>
> Marc
>
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> msmall@aya.yale.edu
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