Re: [Leica] Re: Filters for all kinds of STUFF indoors1

["Dan Post" <dwpost@email.msn.com>]

Andrew- Right you are!
Even thought Flourescents are by and large deficient in redlight, they do
produce enough to expose the cyan dye layer, and usually +30M-10Y will give
usable results. The oinly exception is  the occasional pictures taken at one
of our local hospitals- they have the greenest flourescents I have ever
seen! Either the bulbs are very old or very cheap!
A point I saw in some Fuji literature, its that the new Superia series of
films also have the fourth layer, and thus give better results in mixed
lighting... even though we get a 'spiff' for selling Royal Gold films, I
always recommend the Fuji Superia filmss- one, because it's easier and nicer
to print! Very consistant slopes, and two- it is just such a good film, and
cheaper, too!! I'd rather turn out really nice production for the customer
than to sell 'this week's special' film.

> But under flouro have found for C41 film that you don't really have to
> use filters as it easy to fix during the scan with minimal/no quality
> loss.  If you use Fuji Reala or RDP then this is even less of a problem
> as the 4-layer films are designed to cope with mixed/flouro sources.
>
> Regds,
>
> Andrew N.
> www.nemeng.com