Re: Hoya Filter Quality

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

On 19 Sep 99 at 3:41, danzig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 
> 
> My R72 has some (this is the best I can describe) flecks on the 
> surface of the filter, you can't see thru them but its obvious that 
> their less black then the rest of the filter.
> 
> Plus the black coating seems to fade at one end of the filter, at the 
> very edge where the glass meets the filter ring.
> 
> Do I have worry about either of these leaking ore IR than they 
> should ? 
> 
> Thanks,
> ket
> 
> P.S. This is my second filter, the first had a more pronounced fade 
> that actually went into the area past the filter ring and into the 
> glass itself. Neddless to say I banged on some tables and got it 
> changed ;)

What brand is this?
Never seen anything like that, neither on Leitz, Hoya, B+W or even a 
Russian equivalent....


 

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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