Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/07/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] "Filters for the 75/1.4M indoors?"- Certainly!Especially for ne...
From: Mark Rabiner <mrabiner@concentric.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 11:51:23 -0700

Dan Post wrote:
><snip>
> The filters are usually, as I recall, 80a the corrects regular 3200 K
> tungsten to 3400K for tungsten film, 80b for using using daylight with
> 3400-3600K photoflood, then a deeper 80c and 80d.><snip>
> I still say that using an 80B will at least get you enought information in
> the blue sensitive layer that some reasonable correction can be made in
> negative film output.
><snip>
The 80B would leave your shots about 100 to 200 K warm which looks about right.
The 80A would idealy give a full correction which is great for catalog work but
people have a vague idea that a lightbulb is yellow, not white and they expect
things indoors to be a tad warm.
Mark Rabiner