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- From: ian@rats.demon.co.uk ("Ian A. Young")
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- Subject: Re: Viewing Filters
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- References: <YfM6oQi00WBKA6AEUN@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:03:53 +0000
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- In article <YfM6oQi00WBKA6AEUN@andrew.cmu.edu>
- "Frank A. Reynolds" <fr0c+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- > For years I have seen "viewing filters" listed in catalogs (they all
- > seem to sell the same one made by Peak). One catalog I have states that
- > viewing filters will "render tonal values as they will be reproduced by
- > film".
-
- Well, that would be one way of putting it. The way _I_ would put it is
- that if you stick one of these in front of your eye you get a 2-second
- glimpse of how the scene _might_ appear on film. You don't want to take
- it too literally, and you don't want to concentrate on a scene through
- one of these filters, because your eye compensates very rapidly and the
- effect disappears again.
-
- > 1. Has anyone had any experience with them, I'm just interested in the
- > one for
- > Black & White film?
-
- I use one from time to time. Mine is an Ilford "Pan Viewing Filter"
- which I recall originally having a Wratten number attached. It's a
- small square effort (two bits of glass taped together with a gel in
- between) with a deep purple colour.
-
- > 2. Are they mainly/only for outdoor work or can they be used for evaluating
- > paintings under tungsten lights also?
-
- I use mine primarily outdoors. I find it can be handy in figuring out,
- for example, whether two colours of grass might show up as different or
- whether they might need some help from a filter.
-
- Most of my current pictures are of the dull-as-ditchwater not-more-grey-rocks
- variety, though, so I don't find myself using it very much at present.
-
- > 3. Is the Kodak Wratten 90 (Monochrome Viewing) Filter the same filter
- > unmounted?
-
- Someone whose head is sufficiently capacious to hold the spectral
- responses of the Wrattens will no doubt be able to tell you what colour
- a #90 is. Until then, I might speculate that this is the purple one I
- have... The ones I see in catalogues are mostly a muddy green colour.
- However, I have no particular reason to believe that one is right and
- the other is wrong. The purple one seems to work for me.
-
- -- Ian
-
- P.S. I would have mailed rather than posted, but it seems to me I have
- seen this question before. (Yet another) one for the FAQ list?
-