On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Timothy Sherburne wrote:
> One strategy you could try is to use a gelatin filter between the shutter
> plane and the film or behind the mirror and before the shutter plane. Kodak

I've been thinking about doing that, or finding an old, cheap rangefinder
and doing it that way.

> and Lee have 75cm square 87 polyester filters that you could cut down to
> fit. They run about $12 to $15 bucks on B&H. I'm going to try this with a

I, evidently, have no idea where to look on B&H, because I'll routinely
come up with things that cost 5 times or more that price. :)

> TLR that I got from a fellow list member; I can't find regular glass filters
> for it. Added benefits: You can compose and focus through the viewfinder
> without having to apply the filter later. Down side is that changing filters
> will be difficult to impossible until you finish the roll.

Does it use bay-1 filters? You should be able to find an adapter to
regular threaded, I picked one up at camera-depot.com (perhaps no dash, I
can't remember) for $19.95.


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