Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/02/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Clive, I wouldn't say better than digital, but all the four layer Fuji films do very well in mixed light. If you do a custom white balance in mixed light you can keep your color balance looking good. Don dorysrus@mindspring.com -----Original Message----- From: lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org [mailto:lug-bounces+dorysrus=mindspring.com@leica-users.org] On Behalf Of Clive Moss Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:06 AM To: Leica Users Group Subject: Re: [Leica] Easy way to set white balance on digital cameras. Many of my balance problems come from mixed lighting -- daylight near windows, tungsten/flourescent in darker areas, purple relection from the carpet. I am not making this up -- it was my latest shoot. I could have added flash to complicate it further! Guess that's why B&W is so tempting :-) Is it my imagination, or does film (Fuji Press 400) cope with mixed light better than digital sensors? On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:27:55 -0500, Don Dory <dorysrus@mindspring.com> wrote: > Brian, > The Expodisc is a sandwich of an array of lens to attract a wide cone of > light then a carefully white balanced diffuser (think of a white piece > of lexan) carefully calibrated to be as neutral as possible. It works > as an incident meter and an absolutely neutral gray card. > > Therefore, in strange light, you can set your white balance very > quickly. You can also take a blank frame to help with batch processing. > You have a absolutely neutral capture so you can bring that frame into > balance, all frames shot in the same lighting will respond to the same > adjustment. ... -- Clive Blog: http://clive.moss.net/blog/blog.html Pics: http://www.pbase.com/chmoss _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information