Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/10/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]When was that information in the Data Guide written? At one time, most commercial lighting was either mercury vapour (outdoor) or cool-white fluorescent (indoor) and they were both decidedly green on daylight balanced film. The filter of choice for fluorescent was an FLD (not exactly a CCxxR but on the magenta side), but Hg-vapour looked ghastly no matter. Nowadays I'm seeing mostly halogen lighting in outdoor arena, and indoors a mixture of "warm-white" "day-light" and old-style "cool" white fluorescent tubes (and I literally mean a mixture...if the original installation was homongeous, after a time the tubes get replaced piecemeal with different types). In addition, fluorescent tubes change colour as they age. I wouldn't trust a film's colour shift as a result of push processing or reciprocity failure, to solve lighting balance problems. If you shoot a lot of chrome under existing artificial lighting , the best (although expensive) way is a colour meter and a good variety of CC filters. Of course there's probably a way to do this digitally...perhaps just shoot it in B&W and colourise it any bloody way you want on the computer : ) Myself, I'm just getting the hang of e-mail. Regards, Nigel On Sat, 10 Oct 1998 19:24:25 -0300 "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@istar.ca> writes: >Eric: > >I went to shoot some University Football today and since it was a dull >day, >I decided to read the Kodak Data Guide regarding pushing slide film. >In >the data guide, I ran accross this statement about Kodachrome 200 . It >stated " When the film is push processed, the color balance will shift >in >the magenta-red direction, compensating for some of the greenish >artificial >illumination present in most stadiums and other large facilities.". >This >supports your statement about Allen Harvey. > >In the end, I used Agfa RSX 100 pushed one stop. I just finished >developing the two rolls I shot this afternoon. When they dry, I will >post >a web page if I have any good shots. I was using an R7 with motor and >a >Leica 400 2.8 and a manfrotto monopod. > >On the subject of slide film, I have been using RSX 100, for the past >few >weeks because it is so cheap in 100 foot rolls. I paid $66 CAD or >about >$43 USD for it as fresh unexpired film at my local dealer. I see it >is >about $78 USD from the New York Mail orders. It is pretty good film, >but >not the same as Kodak's E100 or the Fuji films when it comes to fine >grain. > Since it was cheap, I thought it would make a good film for sporting >events and the such times when fine grain doesn't matter. It does a >good >job on the fall colors as well. I shot my first roll of it of fall >colors >to test it. > >Regards, > >Robert Stevens > > > >At 08:23 PM 10/9/98 -0500, you wrote: > >>David Allen Harvey shoots Kodachrome 200 in florescent light pushed >to 500. >>The magenta cast pretty much corrects for the green. He got into >Magnum. So >>he knows what he's doing. >> >> >> >>Eric Welch >>St. Joseph, MO >>http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >> >>Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot >> >> >> >> > > ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]