VLVL Round wire rims with ND-I filters for lenses

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sun Feb 15 15:58:48 CST 2004


on 16/2/04 8:30 AM, Vincent A. Maeder wrote:

>>> I'd say they're blue-tinted -- "[t]he prevailing color was blue" (239)
> --
> and that they're the reason for the strangeness of the light.<<
> 
> Weeeell, the glasses are gray, not blue. The prevailing color of their
> surroundings was blue as in the somber ultramarine weather-chipped walls of
> their clifftop suite.  The Neutral Density glasses merely affect the level
> of lighting, not the coloration.  And ND filters are gray filters that do
> not shift colors or dopplerize the light.  V.

Is it true that ND-1 filters are *never* blue, or other colours? I think
it's quite possible that there's a connection between the "vaporous and
sub-tropical light falling through high windows, un-Californian light" as
well as the fact that "the prevailing color was blue" (not just the walls,
obviously). I think we're seeing this rendezvous through Frenesi's eyes.

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