Re: [Leica] Need Technical Advice

[Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>]

"B. D. Colen" wrote:
> 
> 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.

The Fuji Professional films are being used by National Geographic we learned in
Chicago. NHG? 800.
As far as mixed lighting goes I think Fuji incorporated some of it's Reala
technology into it's Pro films before it stopped making Reala.
We've been getting great results with it with my wife's T4 and my Rollei 35.
I'd say it does better than what you expect a 400 film to do. Looks like a 200
film, grain, saturation, resolution-wise.
Cost a couple of extra bucks, comes in pro packs refrigerated.
Mark Rabiner