Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/06/29

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Fluorescent filtration
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 17:21:28 -0700

"Henning J. Wulff" wrote:
> 
> >Malcolm McCullough wrote:
> >>
> >> >Try though I will to avoid it, I may find myself in a situation soon
> >> >where I will be shooting chromes under fluorescent lighting.  What are
><snip>
> >I thought color meters were no good for reading the green of fluorescents?
> >Mark Rabiner
> 
> 3-colour meters Like the Minolta and the present Gossen do just fine; only
> the old obsolescent 2 colour meters neglected the green-magenta axis.
> 
><snip>
> So my Minolta Color Meter doesn't get much use any more, nor do my various
> filters. Just as well; they are a pain to use if you have to do a lot of
> shots under different lighting and with different lenses.
> 
>    *            Henning J. Wulff
What about the non continuous spectrum issue. How would a meter deal
with that?
The 4 layer films might make it a moot point.
Mark Rabiner