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- From: bercov@bevsun.bev.lbl.gov (John Bercovitz)
- Newsgroups: rec.photo
- Subject: Re: Viewing Filters (long)
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 23:33:35 GMT
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- >> 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".
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- [stuff deleted]
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- >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?
-
- Yeah, I've seen it posted before too but I can't seem to find it now.
- I don't know what the spectral response is but I'm sure it's in the
- CRC handbook. I've written down a few of the filter numbers from the
- CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics and from other places:
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- filter color use
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- colorless
- UV(0) none absorbs UV
- 0 clear thickness compensation
- 1 absorbs UV < 360nm
- 1A pale pnk skylight filter
- 1B lt. pink (skylight) cuts blue cast in shade and distance, absorbs UV
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- yellows
- 2A pale yel UV 405 nm
- 2B pl yel absorbs UV 390 nm
- 2E pl yel absorbs UV
- 3 lt yel
- 4 lt yel CCC - corrects outdoor scenes for panchromatic film
- 6 lt yel (aka K1) partial correction for outdoors
- 8 yel (aka K2) full correction outdoors for Type B panchromatic film
- 9 dp yel
- 11 yl-grn (aka X1) corrects tungsten light for Type B film
- 12 dp yel minus blue - haze cutting for aerial photography
- 13 yel-grn (aka X2) corrects tungsten light for Type C panchromatic film
- 15 dp yel (aka G) contrast control in aerial IR photography
- 16 yel-org blue absorbtion
- 18A transmits UV and IR only
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- oranges and reds
- 21 org blue and blue-green absorbtion
- 22 dp org yellow-orange (mercury yellow) increase contrast in blue
- preparations for microscopy
- 23A lt red contrast effects
- 24 red for two-color photography
- 25 red (aka A) for tri-color separation, high contrast effect,
- aerial IR haze
- two-color general viewing
- 26 red stereo red
- 29 dp red high contrast, tungsten projection of tri-color, red sep. in
- fluor. process
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- magentas and violets
- 30 green absorbtion
- 31 green absorbtion
- 32 magen minus green
- 33 strong green absorbtion
- 34A violet blue separation in fluorescence process
- 35 contrast in microscopy
- 36 dk violet
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- blues and blue-greens
- 38 red absorbtion
- 38A Blue red absorbtion, increasing contrast in visual microscopy
- 39 contrast control in printing motion pictures
- 40 green two-color photography
- 44 lt blu-grn minus red, two-color general viewing
- 44A lt blu-grn minus red
- 45 contrast in microscopy
- 46 blue projection
- 47 blue direct color separation, tungsten tri-color projection
- 47A lt blue
- 47B dp blu tri-color separation form transparencies
- 48 green and red absorbtion
- 48A green and red absorbtion
- 49 dark blue
- 50 very dark blue - mercury violet
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- greens
- 52 lt grn
- 53 middle green
- 54 very dark green
- 55 stereo green
- 56 very light green
- 57 green for two-color photography
- 57A lt grn
- 58 grn tri-color green for separations, contrast in photog & microscopy
- 59 green for tri-color projection
- 59A very light green
- 60 green for tungsten two-color photography
- 61 dp grn grn tri-color sep, tungsten projection
- 64 red absorbtion
- 65 red absorbtion
- 66 contrast effects in microscopy & medical photography
- 67A red absorbtion Two-color projection
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- narrow band
- 70 dk red IR photography 676 nm
- 72B dk or-yel 605 nm
- 73 dk yel-grn 575 nm
- 74 dk grn mercury green 539 nm
- 75 dk blu-grn 488 nm
- 76 dk vio (compound filter) 449 nm
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- Hg line filters
- 77 transmits 546 nm mercury line. glass plus gelatin 580 nm
- 77A transmits 546 nm mercury line. glass plus gelatin 582 nm
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- photometrics
- 78 bluish photometric filter (visual)
- 78AA bluish photometric filter (visual)
- 78A bluish photometric filter (visual)
- 78B bluish photometric filter (visual)
- 78C bluish photometric filter (visual)
- 86 amber photometric filter (visual)
- 86A amber photometric filter (visual)
- 86B amber photometric filter (visual)
- 86C amber photometric filter (visual)
-
- light balancing
- 80A blue color correction for daylight film (5500) under 3200K (studio) lamps
- 80B blue color correction for daylight film (5500) under 3400K (photo) lamps
- 80C blue color cor. for daylight film (5500) under 3800K (clear flash) lamps
- 81 amber warming -100K
- 81A amber color correction for Type B tungsten film under 3400K (photo) lamps
- warming -200K
- 81B amber to remove blue cast in shaded daylight
- warming -300K
- 81C amber to remove blue cast in cloudy/rainy weather; Kodachrome Type A with
- flash; warming -400K
- 81D amber Kodachrome Type A with flash; warming -500K
- 81EF amber Ektachrome Type B with flash; warming -650K
- 82 blue cooling +100K
- 82A blue color correction for Type A tungsten film under 3200K (studio) lamps
- cooling +200K
- 82B blue color correction for Type B tungsten film under 2900K (100w incand.)
- cooling +300K
- 82C blue to remove reddish cast in early morning or late afternoon
- cooling +400K
- 83 amber 16mm commercial Kodachrome in daylight
- 85 orange color correction for Type A tungsten film in daylight (5500K->3400K)
- 85B orange color correction for Type B tungsten film in daylight (5500K->3200K)
- 85C amber converts 5500K (daylight) to 3800K lighting
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- miscellaneous
- 79 photographic sensistometry
- 87 for infrared photography; absorbs visual 770nm ->
- 87C absorbs visual, transmits IR 830nm ->
- 88A for infrared photography; absorbs visual 740nm ->
- 89B for infrared photography 700nm ->
- 90 monochrome viewing (narrow-band for viewing scene brightness);
- about 570->590 nm; 10% luminous transmittance
- 96 neutral filter for controlling luminance; 9% luminous transmittance
- 97 dichroic absorption
- 102 correction filter for Barrier-layer cell
- 106 correction filter for S-4 type photocell
- FL-day purple converts "daylight" fluorescent light for daylight film
- FL-W purple converts "white" fluorescent light for daylight film
- K2 yellow improves contrast in B&W; absorbs UV and part of violet
- G orange greatly improves contrast in B&W; absorbs UV and part
- of blue-green
- 25A red strongest B&W contrast; absorbs UV and part of yellow;
- "night filter"
- also used as a color separation filter with #47 blue and
- #58 green
- X0 yel-grn natural rendition of skin and lips of female models B&W?
- X1 green Absorbs more red than X0, good for green trees B&W?
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- Data on a very few narrower band filters:
- Filter no. low wavelength high wavelength domin. wl lum. transm. %
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- Color separation filters:
- 47 blu 400 475 464 2.8
- 58 grn 490 600 540 23.7
- 25A red 590 700 615 14
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- Narrow band filters:
- 76 400 470 449 0.046
- 75 460 530 488 1.3
- 74 510 570 539 4.0
- 73 560 600 575 1.3
- 72B 590 640 605 0.74
- 70 660 700 676 0.31
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- This data is from the CRC handbook. Much more data is available in the CRC.
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