Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/07

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Subject: [Leica] Color negs indoors
From: Herbert Kanner <kanner@acm.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 23:44:15 -0800

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High speed color films...like with ISO 800.  Color films have color
balance. That is why when you shoot color film without flash indoors,
the pictures come out yellow... OK, so what would be the purpose for 800
speed color film, if you are going to get yellow pictures shooting with
it in low light conditions?  It can't be for use with a flash, you'd be
shooting at f22 and using a really low powered flash...  Even for
outdoor use, for fast sports...it might be useful for a very fast camera
(as in fast shutter speed), really stopped down...but I'd think you'd be
hard pressed to really "need" it.  Under some circumstances, I could see
it being useful...like if the sky is overcast.

Does anyone actually use high speed color film for low light indoor use?
If so, what have you noticed WRT color balance?  What do you use 800
speed film for?

Kodak has some new 800 Porta, which is why I'm asking.

Austin
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It seems to me that I remember correcting out the yellow cast in 
shots taken by incandescent light on ISO 400 negative film just by 
appropriate turning of the knobs on my enlarger color head.  I'm sure 
that the "scan and photoshop" fellers could do even better.

Herb

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