Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks. I can stick the camera on a tripod and just use myself as a subject and crank through a series of WB settings for the strobes and then for the SB800. I've mucked around with some of the B&W printing options, but I'm still a printing wimp (B&W or color). Someday I need to spring for the tools to make my own paper profiles (and Quadtone RIP curves) and take control of all the variables (I have a 2200). Scott Christopher Williams wrote: >No digital can do NPH. Nada. Fuji S3 comes close. It's a shame Fuji is the >only one that tries to imitate film colors. Kind of like camera companies >should be the only one making cameras. > >I just set the camera at sRGB. > >You can set a Custom WB with the SB800, but yes I've read where using a >speedlight + studio lights can cause off color WB. Try also using the Kelvin >Temp on the D200. 5600 is supposed to be flash. > >White folks are all sorts of color, that's what you get when you try world >domination a few thousand times or inbreeding among royalty/trailer parks. > >Try shooting a creole wedding, no one has the same skin color. > >And always have a good printer, either human or mechanical. > >Chris > > > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Scott McLoughlin" >Subject: Re: [Leica] Re:Skin tone - film vs. digital (not a debate) > > > > >>Chris, >> >>Thanks for going through all the variables I should consider. >> >>I've taken one vivid shot, of a rusty lamp on a boat. Dunno >>why, but that captured the greenish patina where my normal >>mode didn't. >> >>I have the camera setup for Adobe RGB. That should be ok, >>right? I don't recalibrate every week, but I also use a Trinitron >>CRT that I'll calibrate every month or two. >> >>Perhaps it is a WB problem. >> >>First, generally, I'm a low contrast NPH (now 400H) kind >>of guy. And in the next few days I'll dip into my new >>stash of Sensia. NPH is more or less made for people >>pics - popular wedding film, etc. I wonder if I'm just not >>going to get that kind of look out of my DSLR "in camera." >> >>Second, while I carry around a white card, I don't use it >>nearly as much as I should (like having dental floss....) I >>have to have better habits here. I have little excuse, because >>I'm rarely a quick shooting kind of shooter. >> >>Third, now that I think of it, I use my DSLR with flash quite >>a bit - either an SB800 or especially a pair of Alien Bees 800's. >>This might present a particular kind of WB problem. >> >>But, I'm going to tweak the in camera settings a bit until >>something good happens or I get bored :-) >> >>So, now a question - how to get a good custom WB when >>using artificial lighting, either with on camera flash (or a flash >>bracket) or with studio strobes? >> >>And a comment. My brother adopted a little black girl, and >>her skin tones come out just fine. It seems I have a white >>people skin problem. >> >>Again, thanks. >> >>Scott >> >> > > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Pics @ http://www.adrenaline.com/snaps Leica M6TTL, Bessa R, Nikon FM3a, Nikon D70, Rollei AFM35 (Jihad Sigint NSA FBI Patriot Act)