Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/09/02

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Subject: [Leica] Skin tone - film vs. digital (not a debate)
From: jgovindaraj at eth.net (Jayanand Govindaraj)
Date: Sat Sep 2 18:47:06 2006
References: <44FA25D8.3030006@adrenaline.com>

Use a custom curve in your D70/D200:
http://fotogenetic.dearingfilm.com/index.html
Cheers
Jayanand Govindaraj
Chennai, India

Scott McLoughlin wrote:

> I've been shooting with a D70 and now a D200.
>
> I find that skin tones with film have a certain opaque
> quality, and a lean toward beige, that I like. I've never
> personally shot Kodachrome, but as a viewer, I see
> these qualities playing out in force.
>
> By comparison, my DSLRs seem to render skin tones
> with a kind of transparency and pinkness.
>
> So I find myself in color correction mode quite frequently,
> tweaking skin tones toward yellow on the color cube (I use
> PWP).
>
> Any clue as to the causes of this discrepancy? I don't mean
> to start a debate. The DSLR may well be more "true to life"
> for all I know.  But I don't like it.
>
> Might this be a quality unique to Nikon DSLRs?
>
> Even better, any ideas how I might do something in camera
> so that I'm not goofing with color correction all the time?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Scott
>



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