Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: [Leica] Need Technical Advice
From: "B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:53:31 -0000
 
Help! As an almost exclusively B&W available light shooter I need some
technical advice - and it might be best to just Email me off-list to avoid
starting an endless thread/pissing contest.. :-)

What is the "best" high-speed (400 to 800) color neg in terms of producing
the most realistic skin tones in a) florescent lighting; b) florescent and
incandescent mixed; c) florescent and daylight mixed.

And, assuming that the colors will be off somewhat, how difficult is it to
have the skin tones corrected in printing by a custom lab?

Thanks in advance for help with such a newbie kind of question, but my use
of color film has for the past 40 years pretty much been confined to either
straight daylight, or just taking "happy snaps" where I didn't care about
color balance, etc.

B. D.