Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/18

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Colour negative film
From: Brougham <brougham3@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 07:55:43 -0700 (PDT)

Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu> wrote:

> Also, is there *any* point in using colour correction filters with
> colour negative film?

Depends on what you want.  For pure color fidelity, sure.  If it
matters that the colors are exact, you'll want to filter depending on
the light source.

That said, it's possible (and a bit of a pain) to color correct *most*
casts.  Generally, neutral gray will no longer be neutral, but you
probably won't notice the slight cast in the other colors.

Take something like a Macbeth color chart and photograph it in varying
light.  You'll be able to get most of the colors rendered correctly,
but will see slight casts in the neutral ones using traditional
darkroom techniques.  With photoshop, you may be able to get
everything so close that you can't tell.  I haven't tried with that.



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