Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/03/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 9:45 PM -0400 3/25/09, Jeff Moore wrote:
>2009-03-25-20:51:28 Marc James Small:
>> <sigh> I preach and preach and the congregation
>> sleeps through the sermon. Harrison & Harrison
>> provide filters to Hollywood. They are US-made
>> and VERY high quality. And you buy them
>> directly, not through dealers. Helipan and B+W
>> are other options but, again, order
>> directly. All of these firms have web-sites and are user-friendly.
>
>Another option for (particularly for Heliopan filters), which I think
>someone here clued me in to, is Foto Mayr in Dietzenbach.
>
>There's a website:
>
> http://www.fotomayr.de/
>
>...but I ended up ordering via email from <sneureuther at fotomayr.de>, who
>was kind enough to correspond with me in English and ship to the US.
>
> -Jeff
>
Yep. Sally Neureuther at Foto Mayr got me my Heliopan filters. If you
order a couple, the savings can be considerable as the Heliopan are
noticeably less expensive than the B+W in Germany, and the range of
offerings is very large. They also do custom sizes, but that seems to
take 6mo. or so. I can't raise the heliopan web site right now
(heliopan.de) but they had a 24 page 'price list' that included their
main offerings
Over the years I have tried and bought many filters. In the 70's and
80's, about 1/3 of the filters were poor quality which introduced
noticeable degradation. A large part of this was a lack of
plano-parallel surfaces. Harrison and Harrison were the worst
offenders, and almost all their filters failed the most basic tests.
Many Hoyas and Tiffens of the time did as well. Leica and Nikon did
not. I'm not going near H&H again. I just tried to find a website
describing their offerings, but can't find one. Only an aol e-mail
address. I don't know if they produce the requisite IR/UV cut
filters, but if they do the prices are presumably not likely to be
out of line with others on the US market.
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