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Topic: Just receive my blue gel filter
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Tom Photiou
Film God
Posts: 4837
From: Plymouth U.K
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted February 23, 2019 02:23 PM
A few years ago Hugh Scott Thompson proved a point to me, you do not need to spend small fortunes on lens filters because he sent me, and at no charge, four plastic gels, two blues, a light blue and a darker blue, also two yellow gels. Hugh said just try them all and if need be mix two together. Using the most basic of clip holders they work perfectly free standing in front of the projectors lens. My recent print of Death wish had red hue during the night scenes and the blue one completely cleared the red hue. While i said i dont keep faded or fading prints we do still have a small number of these and the gels works absolutely perfect.
Hugh also recently sent me some images of a home made top cover to block the flood of light coming out of the top of the Elmo 1200's made from, (i think), a beer can. I said i would put it up here but as yet i havnt so i will find it and get it on here.
Back to the gels, the light and med blue ones seem to do the trick perfectly. No need for expensive lens filters.
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Osi Osgood
Film God
Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted February 25, 2019 11:58 AM
The glass Cyan filters are much better, as thwey let more light thru. harder to get ahold of, though.
I have experimented with plastic and gel filters for years, (taking one or more filters and combing them, ect ect0 and I have had very good results, except for, of course, the loss of light.
Actually, some forms of color fade (eastman) work really well with cyan/greenish filters.
-------------------- "All these moments will be lost in time, just like ... tears, in the rain. "
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