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Subject: [Leica] experience with expodisc?
From: denik at comcast.net (Dennis Kushner)
Date: Tue May 29 07:38:45 2007
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Another alternative for WB.
http://www.whibal.com/

Dennis



On May 29, 2007, at 10:20 AM, Harrison McClary wrote:

> Jerry,
>
> I use the expo disk for white balance and find it very useful and 
> accurate.  I have never used it as a grey card, and have not really 
> thought about doing this.
>
> Personally I found the expo disk to be a little cool on the white 
> balance so I remedied this by adding a 1/4 plus blue and now I get 
> colors that are more leasing to me, but I am one of those people who 
> used to keep 81A filters on his cameras when shooting color slides.
>
> If you want an expo disk on the cheap get a filter some diffusion gel 
> and cut the gel to fit inside the filter than use this for WB.
>
> I did a test last summer using my expo disk, diffusion gel, and the 
> plus blue and you can see it at:
>
> http://www.pbase.com/2plus2/test
>
> Look at the out side photos to see this and the captions tell what was 
> done on each shot.
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Jerry Justianto wrote:
>> plan to buy the expodisc.
>>
>> my questions are:
>> 1. there are no expodisc with size of 39, 46 and 60. which size that i
>> should buy.
>>
>> 2. can it be used for grey card also?
>>
>> 3. can it be used with film camera for the purpose of grey card?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jerry
>>
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