Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Need Technical Advice
From: "Stewart, Alistair" <AStewart@gigaweb.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:14:50 -0500

BD,

I'm right there with you on the thread/pissing contest thing, but maybe you
could post a summary to the lug when you get all the responses and sift
through them? I'm sure that this kind of info is interesting to many LUGers.

best of colour-corrected light,

Alistair

- -----Original Message-----
From: B. D. Colen [mailto:bdcolen@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 7:54 AM
To: Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca. Us (E-mail)
Subject: [Leica] Need Technical Advice


Help! As an almost exclusively B&W available light shooter I need some
technical advice - and it might be best to just Email me off-list to avoid
starting an endless thread/pissing contest.. :-)

What is the "best" high-speed (400 to 800) color neg in terms of producing
the most realistic skin tones in a) florescent lighting; b) florescent and
incandescent mixed; c) florescent and daylight mixed.

And, assuming that the colors will be off somewhat, how difficult is it to
have the skin tones corrected in printing by a custom lab?

Thanks in advance for help with such a newbie kind of question, but my use
of color film has for the past 40 years pretty much been confined to either
straight daylight, or just taking "happy snaps" where I didn't care about
color balance, etc.

B. D.