Special request from someone shooting a film. Was hoping to get gold anti-reflection. I know Zeiss used to make one, but my lab says it has been discontinued. Thanks in advance for the info.
Special request from someone shooting a film. Was hoping to get gold anti-reflection. I know Zeiss used to make one, but my lab says it has been discontinued. Thanks in advance for the info.
I believe FEA does a gold reflex.
FEA's is more of a mirror than an A/R however. (Think blue "blocking" reflector type lenses) I ordered one myself a few months back (Thanks Bill!) but sadly found it to be all but unwearable due to the large amount of reflections. Oh well...live and learn. :)
Thanks for that! Definitely not what they are looking for.
OK, so I found a place called Xtreme Optics in Georgia that has a supplier that can do Gold. Joe the owner and Sandy the woman who answered the phone were both great at getting me the information. Was such a great experience that I wanted to give them a shout-out.
It's a shame that Zeiss Gold is no longer available. That was a great-looking AR, and looked very natural on film.
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I'm curious - why the ultra-specific need for a particular reflex color?
We have both the Carat Gold AR and the Carat Cool Gold Mirror in our price list. I am a Luzerne rep.
Three rivers should be able to still do this
Us optical can as well.
Quantum has a near colorless AR they call the Natural. It is only good with thermal cured hard coats, but a Quantum lab should be able to process these. I have a few test samples from ours that are spun coat and they do look good. Can't wait to get my hands on a dip coating system so that I can process them.
Interstate Optical has ARXHP Natural that has the gold reflex.
"One should either be a work of art or wear a work of art" - Oscar Wilde
Huh. I'd say the golds are the most 'un-natural' look out there. I can't say I've really seen any "vivid" green AR on screen myself, but maybe I'm just not watching the right movies/shows. The majority I remember seeing appear to be something like a Crizal with a very pale green - perhaps with a touch of yellow-green to my eye. Sometimes a blue like the old Zeiss' blues.
Most movies today however, seem to get around the issue by simply removing the lenses entirely. Harry Potter, I'm looking at you!
*shrug*
Surely achromatic is the best for filming
is there a table, or list of reflex colors for different A/R's?
Fair play. Though, again, I've literally *never* seen a *bright* green or blue reflex on an AR lens. Ever. I've seen mirrors like that sure, and any number of the new crop of blue blocker lens fad products. But not normal AR lenses. Perhaps the camera greatly exaggerates the effect, coupled with the use of tinted scene lighting of a similar color cast?
That is exactly it. These are environments with not just multiple light sources, but large ones. As in, rectangular panels of lights four by three feet in size. Granted, my backgrounds in acting and optics make me notice the reflections in actors' glasses quite a bit more than most people.
Stage lighting is even worse. I just pop the lenses out entirely for theatre.
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Called Three Rivers. They were very NOT helpful. :( Left them years ago, good reminder that I made a good decision.
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