Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Dear Lucien, Up until this point, I have found Ektachrome 100SW to be a delightful film for outdoor use and in mixed lighting (including tungsten light sources). But with many things, the film has its limits. In this case, as the sun went down and the outside lighting decreased, the indoor lights made up the majority of illumination. Its not an unpleasing result - but too much yellow for my taste. The indoor lighting is a mixture of halogen and tungsten lighting. In the U.S., most homes have only tunsten lighting. Our house uses mainly halogen indirect floods for lighting with tungsten wall fixtures for "warmth." It seems to work well. The nicest halogen bulbs in Europe I have seen were the low voltage small lights in shop windows everywhere. They were on thin wire tracks and could be moved easily. The U.S. doesn't have these yet. I think in the future I'll stick to the 100S if I am to include indoor shots in the late afternoon or evening. After thinking about permanence of film images, I'm going back to Kodakchrome 25 for a while. I'll let you know how it works. I have found Kodachrome 64 to be too red. I guess I'm just into yellow for now. Best regards, Richard At 08:26 PM 7/15/97 -0700, you wrote: > >Hello Richard, > >I thought the SW film was warm itself (since the W in its name) so you >might see the film instead of the lens. Are you used to this film? > >All the best, > >Lucian > > >