Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Need Technical Advice
From: "Derek Zeanah" <derek@zeanah.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1999 14:21:35 -0500

You've heard about Reala's "4th layer" to deal with fluorescent lighting,
right?  Supposedly Kodak 400 VC has the same sort of technology built in.
I'm not aware of any other color neg films that do...



- ----- Original Message -----
From: B. D. Colen <bdcolen@earthlink.net>
To: Leica-Users@Mejac. Palo-Alto. Ca. Us (E-mail)
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Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 8:53 AM
Subject: [Leica] Need Technical Advice


> Help! As an almost exclusively B&W available light shooter I need some
> technical advice - and it might be best to just Email me off-list to avoid
> starting an endless thread/pissing contest.. :-)
>
> What is the "best" high-speed (400 to 800) color neg in terms of producing
> the most realistic skin tones in a) florescent lighting; b) florescent and
> incandescent mixed; c) florescent and daylight mixed.
>
> And, assuming that the colors will be off somewhat, how difficult is it to
> have the skin tones corrected in printing by a custom lab?
>
> Thanks in advance for help with such a newbie kind of question, but my use
> of color film has for the past 40 years pretty much been confined to
either
> straight daylight, or just taking "happy snaps" where I didn't care about
> color balance, etc.
>
> B. D.
>