Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I use sheets of gel (81A), from a stage lighting store, taped to my little Vivitar 2600 and my Sunpack 120J. It warms things up a little and gets rid of the UV blues in white coloured articles. Anything you want or imagine is available and very inexpensive as well. I doubt* Harvey used the little Vivitar plastic insert as they are too easy to lose. For Cuba he used Velvia which tends to give a rather warm flesh tones to start with (Caucasians go a blotchy red, yuck). John Collier *personal opinion of course, not substantiated by voluminous correspondence. > From: "Tim Atherton" <timphoto@nt.sympatico.ca> > >> .......David Alan Harvey revealed that he uses a small flash, a Vivitar 2800 >> for fill in low light. He also talks about using a little >> warming gel on it >> which, I assume, is the one that ships with the flash. I had >> tried it a few >> times and didn't like the excessively orange results. If you look at >> Harvey's fill flash shots in Natl Geo, you'll see the same effect.