Re: Anyone used the "fixed" NightShot camcorders yet?

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 25 Sep 98 at 13:16, Joshua_Putnam wrote:

> It's interesting to see the comment from jason.revell@xxxxxxxxx
> about shooting with a B+W 094 -- that's much darker than I'd
> expected it to work with, but it is a filter I'd been
> considering getting for use with HIE.  Clearly deep enough that
> I'd be doing very slow tripod shots, but I'm used to that from
> shooting Konica 750 with an 87 gel.  Anyone have a good supplier
> for B+W 094 or Hoya RM90 filters in the U.S. in photographic,
> not video, sizes, say 52mm?  

I am a bit confused by the Hoya RM90....I got one a few months ago,
but despite it's transmission plot, it is not completely opaque to
the eye, not even in daylight....much less opaque than a #87C,
almost at the level of a #88A. Note that this doesn't say much about
what it does on film....it might only 'leak' 1% visible, but still
do a good job on film/video. It just isn't opaque, something one
would expect from an #87A equivalent.

> Or if not in the U.S., a good
> international mail order source?  (I don't suppose there's an
> 87A in the range of Cokin-sized resin filters?)

No, I have been pondering about having a batch made, but there is 
very little demand for anything above #87C....too expensive for 
experiments only, even (more) for me.

But I do have gelatine alternatives in the entire #87 range,
including #87A....US$0.50 pro square centimeter....and absolutely
opaque (even strong lights like a NiCd/Halogen Surefire can't get
through visibly) 


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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
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