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Colour filters I need to shoot photos under florescent lighting in the room. please advise what filters to use and compensate the green light eg the magenta or blue filter etc.. also the type of film + aperature/shutter settings - I use the Nikon F80 and vice versa if in turn to use the built in flash. Clereto
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John A. Lind |
If you are using flash, don't worry about it. The flash will provide enough daylight color temperature to overcome the fluorescent lighting . . . under most conditions . . . unless you are using a high speed film with a lot of fluorescent light. If you aren't using flash, getting proper color balance is difficult with fluorescent lights. You're right that they will give an ugly green cast to everything. In this case, you should use a "fluorescent to daylight" filter, sometimes called an "FLD" or "FL-D." Depending on the filter and who makes it, you will lose 1 or 1-1/2 stops with it. If you use the TTL metering in your Nikon, it will automatically compensate for this when you put the filter on because the metering will be looking through the filter. (When you add the filter, ISO 400 film effectively becomes as if it is ISO 200 or maybe ISO 160 film, etc.) B+W, Heliopan, Hoya, and Tiffen all make "fluorescent to daylight" filters. Any large camera store should have one in the ring size you need. Even with one of these filters, there is wide variation in the color balance of fluorescent lights depending on manufacturer and type of light (daylight, soft white, warm white etc.). If exact color balance is critical, I recommend trying an experiment with the filter under the same lights before an important shoot. Even though it may not totally correct, it's much better than shooting without one, and it makes it much easier for the print processor to do any remaining correction when making the prints. -- John
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