Hi Friends...
Was pondering today as I embarked on a gel organization project the reasoning behind the numbering of Lee Filters. It seems to me there is little rhyme or reason to why a gel gets a particular number with Lee, while in Rosco you can at least have a general sense of the color by the first number... I wonder if Lee loses any business to this? I found a number of really nice Lee colors today going through the decades of saved gel, but I couldn't tell you any of their numbers now! Maybe it's just because I work so much more with designers that use rosco colors so it's just in my head, but I have to imagine the rosco numbering is much easier for designers to pick up as well.
On a semi-related note... I know that Rosco markets and sells E-Color as a Lee equivilent.. to those of you out there who are much more picky than me, how close is it? I have designers that don't like the substition, but I personally can't notice a difference (although I haven't done a side by side shootout).
Was pondering today as I embarked on a gel organization project the reasoning behind the numbering of Lee Filters. It seems to me there is little rhyme or reason to why a gel gets a particular number with Lee, while in Rosco you can at least have a general sense of the color by the first number... I wonder if Lee loses any business to this? I found a number of really nice Lee colors today going through the decades of saved gel, but I couldn't tell you any of their numbers now! Maybe it's just because I work so much more with designers that use rosco colors so it's just in my head, but I have to imagine the rosco numbering is much easier for designers to pick up as well.
On a semi-related note... I know that Rosco markets and sells E-Color as a Lee equivilent.. to those of you out there who are much more picky than me, how close is it? I have designers that don't like the substition, but I personally can't notice a difference (although I haven't done a side by side shootout).