This section is from the book "Airplane Photography", by Herbert E. Ives. Also available from Amazon: Airplane photography.
Since the character of the absorption of the "K" filters is not all that could be desired, new filters, both of dyed gelatin and of glass, have been produced. The glass, a Corning product having a very sharp-cut absorption, has not yet been produced on a commercial scale with the high transparency in green, yellow and red that selected samples have shown. The United States Air Service has adopted filters of a new dye, called the EK, from the name of the company in whose laboratory it was produced. These filters are standardized in two depths of staining, called the "Aero No. 1" and "Aero No. 2." Their spectral transmission curves appear in Fig. 106, along with those of certain darker filters useful only with panchromatic plates for exceptionally heavy haze. The characteristic of these Aero filters is their great transparency through all the spectrum except the blue, whereby the greatest haze-cutting action is attained together with a low filter factor. The filter factors of the Aero No. 1 and No. 2 with Cramer Isonon plates are 3 and 5, respectively.
 
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