Hi Stephen,
I do believe the Kodak Wratten 18A filter is discontinued. I have one in a
2 inch square size. Unlike almost all the other Wratten gelatin filters,
the 18A is a fairly thick glass filter, and was very expensive when I
purchased it years ago. (I actually wanted a 3 inch filter at that time,
but couldn't afford one.) ;)
I've found a source of UV pass filters on the internet, but haven't ordered
anything from this company yet:
http://www.maxmax.com/aUVFilterOrder.asp
These are also very expensive. I would be interested to know of any
alternative sources for UV and IR pass filters, hopefully something of
similar quality, but more affordable. So, if anyone knows of a source,
please speak up! ;)
One more thing, the maxmax company also stocks a wide variety of IR
filters, and lots of other unusual products that you won't find hardly
anywhere else.
Stephen, you can tell that camera shop that I have a genuine 18A filter,
and it is visibly opaque. It is certainly NOT anything like a UV haze
filter. Of course, you already know that, but maybe they will take the word
of someone who actually owns one of the 18A filters (probably not.) :)
take care,
Glen
At 06:23 PM 1/3/2006, Stephen wrote:
My Lover likes to know what I want for presents and I thought I
would like to try UV photography. So I put ' 58mm UV pass filter for UV
photography eg 18A ' on the list.
She took the list to the camera shop closest to where she works
and got them to order some stuff in. They even made a joke about other
things on the list when she showed it to them.
On christmas day when she handed me one of the parcels she said
this was the only one they had in stock. I opened it and it was a UV haze
filter. I thought I had made it plain enough that they could figure out I
did not want that. No problems take it back and get them to order what we want.
Her first day back at work was yesterday and she went to the shop
in her lunch time. She was told that the 18A is the same filter but it
costs more than twice as much. So according to them an 18A cuts out UV light.
Not only that their oldest expert, who is apparently also a
professional photographer, told her that he could tell from the list that
I was just converting to digital photography and I was making basic
mistakes, like he did. And the only filter I really wanted was a star
filter. Fortunately she is a sensible girl and will only accept what's on
the list.
There was no digital specific items on the list. I do have a star
filter, which I haven't used in years.
Bloody camera shops!
Stephen
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