Re: [Leica] filters/choices for shoot at indoor pool

["Mike Durling" <durling@widomaker.com>]

Adam:

When I was shooting news film back in the 70's we had a chart on the
darkroom wall that showed the filtration and exposure for every high school
gym in the area.  (We shot a lot of basketball.)  They varied all over the
place.  Often the 85 was right, other times it was a 40-R or even no filter.
The film was tungsten balanced.  Then we switched from Fuji to Kodak film
and suddenly none of the filtration worked.  I guess the moral is that you
have to do some tests.  Color neg film should be correctable in the print.
Tranny film will be harder especially since its hard to find a 1-hour lab
that does chromes.

Mike D

- -----Original Message-----
From: Adam Bridge <abridge@idea-processing.com>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Monday, January 24, 2000 10:55 PM
Subject: [Leica] filters/choices for shoot at indoor pool


>I'm going to the USA Swimmming Olympic Trials in Indianapolis this August.
The
>facility is indoors and artificially lighted. I'll be shooting my M6 with a
50mm
>f2 and a 90mm lens.
>
>I have no idea of how to correct for the color temperature of the pool
lighting.
>Because I'm an official I'll have access to the deck. I'll be shooting
>photographs of the officials to accompany a video piece my son and I will
be
>shooting at the same time. So I'll be very close.
>
>Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Thank you!
>
>Note: it's not Paris, but going to Trials for me is a really Big Deal.
>
>ab
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