[rollei_list] Re: Rollei H1, UV, R1, R2 and R1,5 filters

  • From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2011 18:39:02 -0500

At 06:27 PM 11/6/2011, CarlosMFreaza wrote:
>You are welcome Robert. I think UV and Skylight filters and the combo
>are still significant for color photography specially under some
>conditions in spite of film improvements. Digital cameras sensors are
>also UV sensitives but you can handle the blueish cast via white
>balance and/or software, however several of them are infrared rays
>sensitive too and need a special filter to avoid the effect, regular
>film does not have this problem.
I, too, can only thank Carlos for his explanation. We probably ought to develop a FAQ on the care and loving of a Rolleiflex camera!
The Decamired filter system was all the rage when it was developed in the 1950's. Leica and Zeiss Ikon toyed with it but only Ha$$elbland and Rolleiflex made it a foundation for the photography made with their cameras. And the Decamired system works wonderfully with color emulsions, particularly with chromes. (Remember those? Slides? Does anyone still shoot slides?)
Slides have no permissible error as they are first-generation images. Oh, certainly, a quiet evening in a dark-room with Ilfachrome chemistry and paper can adjust a lot of things but, in the end, chromes are merciless judges of our abilities to capture a picture. Imagine a bright and sunny autumn day. Imagine a dark alley in a city, an alley bounded by office buildings. Splashes of vivid color and the hard dark of shadows. I can do quite well with that ultimate art medium of schwarz-weiss. I can make a reasonable compromise with C-41 emulsions. But chromes will just die there were it not for the ability of Decamired filters to sort out a solution.
This brings back a lot of very pleasant memories of shooting local league soccer games twenty years back, when I first got my 2.8GX, that powerhouse of picture-takers. Fall evenings and a bunch of teen-agers running around the field ablaze with the colors of their uniforms. It took me a year to learn how to photograph those properly. That was all back in the Longago, back when I still took pictures. 

And Harrison & Harrison is still around, for the all of it.

Marc


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