take an orange/yellow filter with me?

[jano]

Going to bodie this weekend, and have pretty much settled on taking my sony f717 for infrared, and my ZI with three lenses for both b&w and color as things work out -- maybe the Iskra II for some dorky MF 😛. Want to travel light 🙂 Considered the digital rebel for macro, but *shrug*

When I purchased the 35mm lens for my G2 from a member here (francisco?), he kindly included a couple filters, yellow and orange -- quantaray and vivitar. I tried them out and got pretty cool results. But these don't fit on my m lenses. What ticks me off is that each of the M lenses I have has a different filter size!

My options are to pick up some cheap filters at the camera shop for each of the lenses, or pick up one set of the more expensive ones with step up/down rings, leave the ZI at home and take the G2 with lenses, take both ZI and G2, OR not to worry about the filters and deal with it in PS (I scan b&w, do not have a darkroom for printing). What do ya'll think?

 

[laptoprob]

Filtering when taking the pic is better than filtering afterwards because the starting point is closer to where you would want to go. Thinking of contrast mainly.

I ususally use yellow or orange in BW.

 

[Rich Silfver]

Going to Bodie I'd bring either a dark yellow/orange filter and a yellow-green filter.

Don't skimp out on the filter quality. You paid good money for your lenses and I would recommend putting some B+W MRC filters on them.

 

[jano]

Thanks 🙂 But....

Darnit, I forgot my lenses at home. What are the filter sizes for these:

ZM, 25mm; ZM 35mm; 85/2 nikkor (nippon kogaku.. this one has a two-screwable hood).

If not known, hopefully I'll have time to pick those things up tomorrow.

 

[Simon Larbalestier]

Yellow/orange or yellow/green would certainly cut the contrast and help with the scanning. Heliopan make excellent filters in most sizes and work out cheaper than the B+W (both use Shott glass same as Rodenstock fliters apparently). I have all 3 of them in various sizes and colours.

 

[Dougg]

In Bodie I used a dark yellow filter (3x factor) with Tri-X Prof (ISO 320), using just the Bronica RF645 and 65mm lens (about 40mm equiv). Everyone will work in their own way of course, but I thought it was just simpler to dial-in one field-of-view for compositional thinking. I had 45mm in my pocket, though, and Bodie does offer some interesting possibilities for really wide lenses. Maybe next time...

In your place I might just go with the G2 and 35 Planar with the filters you're familiar with. Or the Zeiss Ikon... The 25mm Biogon takes 46mm filters (same as your Planar-G), and the 35mm Biogon takes 43mm.

 

[jano]

Thanks Simon and Dougg.

Funny, I could swear I tried the 46mm filters here on the 25zm and they didn't fit. So just to make sure, I tried again last night and guess what? They did fit! 🙄

Off to the store today, will pick up a couple filters. Need to figure out how to filter up the 85/2 nikkor, though. I read something about "filter system" and I'm guessing it has to do with the splittable hood? *shrug*

Jano

 

[AusDLK]

I wouldn't consider "quantaray and vivitar" filters to be high quality.

Nothing less than Heliopan, B+W, or Leica filters suffice on Leica lenses IMHO.

I always have a B+W orange filter on whatever lens I am currently using unless indoors and/or in poor light.