Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/12/20

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Subject: [Leica] Early days, please confirm sinking suspicion
From: spencer at aotera.org (Spencer Cheng)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:47:35 -0500
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George & Leo,

On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:31, George Lottermoser wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2011, at 7:54 AM, Spencer Cheng <spencer at aotera.org> wrote:
> 
>> My borrowed M8 has a really tough time with white balance in indoor mixed 
>> lighting conditions. I ended up converting many of those images to B&W.
> 
> Simply set K temperature; just as you would choose a daylight or tungsten 
> film. Shooting RAW definitely allows for achieving desired balance in post 
> processing.

It was DNG so I did try to adjust the colour temperature. Didn't help much. 
Varied between looking icky to looking like a gathering of zombies. :)

On Dec 20, 2011, at 9:35, Leowesson wrote:

> Just curious, did you have an IR filter on the lens?

No I did not. My loaner didn't come with IR filters. :(

I really should try the same angle some time with P&S cameras I have around. 
I was shooting from the kitchen which is a mixture of incandescent and 
fluorescent lighting into the dining room which was lit by an incandescent 
chandelier. I suspect it will be very tricky lighting for any digital 
camera. Colour film would not be able to handle this.

It doesn't bother me much really since for people pictures, I prefer B&W 
unless someone has perfect skin.

Regards,
Spencer



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