Canon Series VI Accessories

[Major Tom]

Does anyone know what was in the complete range?

I picked up a Series VI hood with filter adapter for $40 (luckily) and I'm especially curious what filters are available. I have the 40mm version. Are there ND filters in this line?

 

[Nokton48]

In a really cool color-coded Bakelite carrying tube, were the UV, Light Yellow, Medium Yellow, Light Green, Medium Green, Orange, and Medium Red, (recalling from memory). 😀

 

[Robert Lai]

Heliopan sells new Series VI filters still - Yellow and ND. I also got a UV filter in Series VI from Heliopan - all for my Kodak Medalist II. You can get this from B&H.

 

[peterm1]

I once bought a set of Canon filters - complete with color coded plastic cases for them that kind of nestled together so all the filter cases screwed or clipped to together into a single unit. From memory there were red, orange,yellow and at least one green filter (maybe light green which used to be the colour for shooting people in the days of black and white film). These may have been series filters (I cannot now recall as I on sold them many years ago)but they may have been 40mm filters. Generally though its an indicator of the range of filters available - the above were the common ones as they could all be used for black and white film depending on the subject.

I also bought singly a number of Canon filters with a silver ring rather than black. These used to be available in 48mm and 58mm rather than in "series" sizes as these were two common Canon filter sizes.

(I was lucky - about 20 or so years back there was an old style camera store in my home city. The old guy who owned it let me rummage around in his storage drawers where I always found gems to buy - little accessories for the 1950s cameras that I loved to use back then.) Maybe some of this stuff is still available on eBay.

 

[Major Tom]

Heliopan sells new Series VI filters still - Yellow and ND. I also got a UV filter in Series VI from Heliopan - all for my Kodak Medalist II. You can get this from B&H.

Thanks for the tip, Robert.