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85c Tiffen Filter Question Will a Tiffen 85c filter do anything foe black and white photography? If so, is the filter factor the same? Thanks!
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Jon Close |
85C is a yellow/orange "warming" filter intended to match daylight/flash light (~5500°K) to Tungsten film (~3200°K). With black and white, it will have an effect similar to using Yellow #8, though much, much more subtle. The filter factor is the same, regardless of whether it is used with color daylight, tungsten, or black and white film.
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David King |
Find a copy of the RGB-based color wheel photographers use (the RBY-based wheel of painters is not the same). When you place a colored filter over B&W film, you will darken the gray values of items having the complimentary color of the filter (the color opposite it on the color wheel)and slightly lighten the items having about the same color. Filters designed to color balance color film and lighting sources though not designed for B&W contrast changes will work in the same way with the strength of the effect dependant on the purity and intensity of the filter. David
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