Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Another alternative for WB. http://www.whibal.com/ Dennis On May 29, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Harrison McClary wrote: > Jerry, > > I use the expo disk for white balance and find it very useful and > accurate. I have never used it as a grey card, and have not really > thought about doing this. > > Personally I found the expo disk to be a little cool on the white > balance so I remedied this by adding a 1/4 plus blue and now I get > colors that are more leasing to me, but I am one of those people who > used to keep 81A filters on his cameras when shooting color slides. > > If you want an expo disk on the cheap get a filter some diffusion gel > and cut the gel to fit inside the filter than use this for WB. > > I did a test last summer using my expo disk, diffusion gel, and the > plus blue and you can see it at: > > http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/test > > Look at the out side photos to see this and the captions tell what was > done on each shot. > > Hope this helps > > Jerry Justianto wrote: >> plan to buy the expodisc. >> >> my questions are: >> 1. there are no expodisc with size of 39, 46 and 60. which size that i >> should buy. >> >> 2. can it be used for grey card also? >> >> 3. can it be used with film camera for the purpose of grey card? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Jerry >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > -- > Harrison McClary > Harrison McClary Photography > harrison@mcclary.net > http://www.mcclary.net > ImageStockSouth - Stock Photography > http://www.imagestocksouth.com > Tobacco Road: Personal Blog: > http://www.mcclary.net/blog > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >