Vintage filter identification

[somak]

I've some tiny square glass filters collected from some camera club meeting many years ago. Can anybody identify these?

 

[Sirius Glass]

Ask filter.find at www.filterfind.net

 

[Dustin McAmera]

Well, this is the MEC 16:

Mec 16 - Camera-wiki.org - The free camera encyclopedia

camera-wiki.org

submin.com shows filters for the second model MEC 16 SB; these are mounted in a frame which seems to leave a little handle at the top, making it easier to get the filter back out of the slot in the camera when you've finished with it.

Yashica 16mm Accessories

 

[somak]

Thanks a lot

 

[JPD]

Dustin is a good researcher as always, and now somak needs to get a MEC 16. Slitting film and all that.

I hope the text is printed on or inside the boxes and not on the filter glass. It would have been funny if it was.

 

[somak]

Dustin is a good researcher as always, and now somak needs to get a MEC 16. Slitting film and all that.

I hope the text is printed on or inside the boxes and not on the filter glass. It would have been funny if it was.

Its not really on my mind to get a MEC 16. I was thinking if these filters can somehow be accommodated to my Horizon panoramic camera. Looks like they're a bit bigger than standard Horizon filters.

 

[somak]

Yes the letters are on the case and not on the filter glass. I first thought it was written in Russian and was searching those letters in Cyrillic with no results.
That you've mentioned letters etched on glass reminded me something else. Over the years I've collected a lot of accessories and I'm organizing them and
I recently found something peculiar object made by Edmund Optics , a small transparent plastic made cylinder like object with focusable viewing lens at one end and very finely etched geometrical figures and numerals at another end. I'll make another post on it

 

[JPD]

Yes the letters are on the case and not on the filter glass. I first thought it was written in Russian and was searching those letters in Cyrillic with no results.
That you've mentioned letters etched on glass reminded me something else. Over the years I've collected a lot of accessories and I'm organizing them and
I recently found something peculiar object made by Edmund Optics , a small transparent plastic made cylinder like object with focusable viewing lens at one end and very finely etched geometrical figures and numerals at another end. I'll make another post on it

Some filter manufacturers, like Agfa and Zeiss Ikon, had their logotypes etched on the glass at the edge, at least for a while. In normal use it wouldn't affect the photographs, but I don't like it.

If "Color B3" and "O 6x" and "MEC 16" were etched in the centre of the filters, it would certainly have affected and probably been readable on the photographs (due to the short focal length used in a 16mm camera). A bad way to "be reminded of what type of filter was used".

 

[reddesert]

I recently found something peculiar object made by Edmund Optics , a small transparent plastic made cylinder like object with focusable viewing lens at one end and very finely etched geometrical figures and numerals at another end. I'll make another post on it

That sounds like a magnifier with a reticle, sometimes called a comparator. Here are some moderately snazzy ones from Edmunds:
https://www.edmundoptics.com/c/comparators/630/
https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/6x-pocket-comparator-a3befd3a/11823/#
Click the product photos on their pages to get images of the geometric shapes on the reticle. One uses them to eyeball-measure the dimensions of small things by comparison with the figures on the reticle.

 

[somak]

That sounds like a magnifier with a reticle, sometimes called a comparator. Here are some moderately snazzy ones from Edmunds:
https://www.edmundoptics.com/c/comparators/630/
https://www.edmundoptics.com/f/6x-pocket-comparator-a3befd3a/11823/#
Click the product photos on their pages to get images of the geometric shapes on the reticle. One uses them to eyeball-measure the dimensions of small things by comparison with the figures on the reticle.

Thanks reddesert for pointing out to the right thing. Now I know that thing I've is a pocket comparator