RE: [Leica] Need Technical Advice

["B. D. Colen" <bdcolen@earthlink.net>]

Thanks to Dan and everyone else who's been responding to my pathetic plea
for help.

And, as Alistair suggested, when the posts stop coming I'll put together a
summary of the advice.

B. D.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us]On Behalf Of Dan S
> Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 1999 8:23 PM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Need Technical Advice
>
>
> B.D. I just got back around 300 mixed light and fluorescent
> shots from a big
> corporate meeting.  Kodak 400vc is excellent for this use.
>
> As for balancing, it should not be a problem.  Most machine
> processors are
> able to compensate reasonably well. I would recommend that
> you overexpose by
> 1/2 stop for the fluorescent lighting however, to help the
> lousy shadows
> that this lighting produces.
>
>
> >
> >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.
> >
> >
>
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