RE: KODAK EKTACHROME IR FLIM

["Michael Dziak" <fetch_the_ball@xxxxxxx>]

Ed, I've been in photography some 20+ years and was also a great admirer of 
Norm Rothschild.  He knew more about filters than anyone else.  I miss his 
column with his passing.  I have one of these "color polarizing" filters and 
this has given me the idea to try it with E6 infrared
Warm regards,
Mike Dziak
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From: 	owner-infrared@xxxxx on behalf of Edward Meyers
Sent: 	Sunday, June 15, 1997 11:20 AM
To: 	infrared@xxxxx
Subject: 	Re: KODAK EKTACHROME IR FLIM

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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Robert Long wrote:

> On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 20:58:08 -0400 (EDT), you wrote:
> 
> |On Sat, 14 Jun 1997 JoePaduano@xxxxxxx wrote:
> |
> |> George, a no.12 filter coupled with a polarizer will turn blue skies 
dark,
> |> especially with a slight underexposure.
> |> 
> |I've had this set of color polarization filters for about
> |twenty years. Each is a polarizer and varies its color as
> |you turn it. Norman Rothschild originally srote about them
> 
> Frankly, I doubt that that's what Joe had in mind.  I bought the
> warming/cooling one when Porter's was remaindering them several years
> ago and have never used it.  A bit too gimmicky for my taste, though I
> suspect some advertising photographers of using the warming setting
> when they can't get that coveted pre-sunset look any other way.
> Knowing something of how Pop Photography worked in Rothschild's day, I
> suspect that--though it was a novel idea that might have caught his
> interest for that reason--he was told to write about those filters
> because they could get an ad contract for them if he did.  Perhaps
> things haven't changed much.
> 
> But a regular (non-color, or neutral-color) polarizer will darken
> skies and make some colored object look more saturated by cancelling
> out reflective "haze" that is polarized at 90 degrees from the filter
> setting.  That's presumably what you're after and what I imagine Joe
> was referring to.
> 
> Bob Long
> (boblong@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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Sorry, but you have it wrong. I'm talking about the
polarizers that  change from red to blue and yellow
to blue as they polarize the light. And you're wrong
about Rothschild. He was a teacher and image maker.
His motives were to teach his few million readers the
techniques to make what he considered to be interesting
images. I resent your remark inferring his not being honest.
I knew him and worked with him for almost 38 years.
Ed Meyers

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