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Subject: [Leica] experience with expodisc?
From: lists at mcclary.net (Harrison McClary)
Date: Tue May 29 07:20:16 2007
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Jerry,

I use the expo disk for white balance and find it very useful and 
accurate.  I have never used it as a grey card, and have not really 
thought about doing this.

Personally I found the expo disk to be a little cool on the white 
balance so I remedied this by adding a 1/4 plus blue and now I get 
colors that are more leasing to me, but I am one of those people who 
used to keep 81A filters on his cameras when shooting color slides.

If you want an expo disk on the cheap get a filter some diffusion gel 
and cut the gel to fit inside the filter than use this for WB.

I did a test last summer using my expo disk, diffusion gel, and the plus 
blue and you can see it at:

http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/test

Look at the out side photos to see this and the captions tell what was 
done on each shot.

Hope this helps

Jerry Justianto wrote:
> plan to buy the expodisc.
>
> my questions are:
> 1. there are no expodisc with size of 39, 46 and 60. which size that i
> should buy.
>
> 2. can it be used for grey card also?
>
> 3. can it be used with film camera for the purpose of grey card?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
>
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Replies: Reply from denik at comcast.net (Dennis Kushner) ([Leica] experience with expodisc?)
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