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Subject: [Leica] Skin tone - film vs. digital (not a debate)
From: scott at adrenaline.com (Scott McLoughlin)
Date: Sat Sep 2 19:00:25 2006
References: <44FA25D8.3030006@adrenaline.com> <44FA33E8.1050005@eth.net>

Been using the updated "white wedding" curve since the
first week or two I bought the camera 2 years ago. I don't
think that's the problem.

Scott

Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:

> Use a custom curve in your D70/D200:
> http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/index.html
> Cheers
> Jayanand Govindaraj
> Chennai, India
>
> Scott McLoughlin wrote:
>
>> I've been shooting with a D70 and now a D200.
>>
>> I find that skin tones with film have a certain opaque
>> quality, and a lean toward beige, that I like. I've never
>> personally shot Kodachrome, but as a viewer, I see
>> these qualities playing out in force.
>>
>> By comparison, my DSLRs seem to render skin tones
>> with a kind of transparency and pinkness.
>>
>> So I find myself in color correction mode quite frequently,
>> tweaking skin tones toward yellow on the color cube (I use
>> PWP).
>>
>> Any clue as to the causes of this discrepancy? I don't mean
>> to start a debate. The DSLR may well be more "true to life"
>> for all I know.  But I don't like it.
>>
>> Might this be a quality unique to Nikon DSLRs?
>>
>> Even better, any ideas how I might do something in camera
>> so that I'm not goofing with color correction all the time?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Scott
>>
>
>
>
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