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Francois Dion Jan 7, 2024

@erik @pasqualeberesti in my case, in the 90s, got a pair of Fujica slr cameras for my wife and I, and a few m42 fujinon lenses. They all shared a 49mm filter thread. So i bought some new Tiffen filters. Also a few Hoya. Closeup filters, red ( for black and white), some diffusion, some gradient and some ND. Also uv/haze, and a few others. We used those a good bit, without real issues.

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Francois Dion

@erik @pasqualeberesti what followed was a deep dive into vintage filters, as i would often get filters along with the lenses or cameras i would buy on the used market. I discovered Series V, VI, VII etc filters. Where europe adopted metric filters in the 1930s, the US used the Series standard up to the 1970s. A series VII (7) filter would be 2”, almost 51mm. There are adapters to go to/from metric and Series. My favorites were Spiralite (later Spiratone) #photo