Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/01/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you have the older one that is rather "cool" you can warm it up...I never liked my expo disk color, was always too cold for me...so one day while bored I cut a 1/4 plus blue gel into a circle the size of my expo disk stuck it in there, did a custom white balance and viola my files look like I shot them with nice chrome film and an 81A filter...I love it. I used to always shoot with 81A on all my lenses. I like warm photos. The a few weeks after I discovered this they came out with the warm expo disk.....they HAD to copy me. ;) Jeff Moore wrote: > 2007-01-18-16:16:11 Harrison McClary: > >> I am sure the M8 allows Custom WB, if not that is a MAJOR oversight on >> their part. >> > > It does. Just bang a quick frame of the main light source through an > ExpoDisc (I prefer the "warm" one -- ever so slightly cool to force the > camera to balance things slightly warm for general use) and you're > golden. -- Harrison McClary Harrison McClary Photography harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography http://www.imagestocksouth.com Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: http://web.mac.com/whmcclary/iWeb/tobacco-road/Blog/Blog.html