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.
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