[rollei_list] Re: Step Up Ring

At 03:30 PM 4/18/2007, Robert Lilley wrote:
>Marc,
>
>Just took you up on your Series VI adaptor idea and called Harrison and
>Harrison in California.  I ordered 5 filters, a lens hood and a Series VI to
>bay II adaptor (in my case) in a matter of minutes as H&H will sell direct.
>The filters are a laminate and are non-coated at about $25 each.  I think
>the hood and adaptor totaled around $20.  I was told by one of the Harrisons
>that H&H doesn't coat their filters because many of these items are
>purchased by rental houses catering to the motion picture industry.
>Apparently the coatings wouldn't stand up (I guess to the abuse).
H&H supplies Hollywood with filters. The US cinematographers do not like coated filters for reasons which remain a bit obscure: perhaps it is just a matter of tradition. They were quite slow to adopt coated lenses and only did so when Kilfitt supplied most of the non-standard stuff in the 1960's and 1970's and simply refused to do special runs of uncoated lenses. 

Marc


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