Re: EIR antihalation layer (was: Dimpled pressure plates

[Joe Berenbaum <joe-b@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:24 14/06/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>...I have a lens I want to use with this film in
>> Olympus mount. Its a Sigma 8mm circular fisheye so it's not like I can 
>> just nip down to the store and buy one in another mount! 
>
>Did the Leica conversion not work out?

The matter is still unresolved; Mr Broomhead of SRB went away for a couple
of weeks and I still have to send him the lens, and I'm considering just
getting an OM-1 body to use it on anyway since a conversion (if possible)
would probably cost more than that. I suppose I should just send him the
lens now and find out for sure what is possible.

>Btw, just to get you in the mood: I just finished a bunch of new IR
>pictures on my homepage, from last winter, amoung which a few taken
>with the 8mm Sigma:
>http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm
>All using a #87C between the film rails.

I shall inspect them!

>Question for Olympus users, on behalf of Joe: how 'tall' are the
>film rails in the Olympus cameras, and do they have a very slight
>notch on top and bottom, to seal a filter laying between the rails? 
>The 8mm was for me the reason to go ahead with this filter system,
>as any color darker than #25 (clear, yellow, orange and red glass
>filters are included) is almost impossible to mount, and being an
>internal screw filter, very inconvenient to use.

Joe B.


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