KODAK - PORTRA 100T - TUNGSTEN

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Darryl Roberts

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Hi,

I recently obtained a box of 4x5 KODAK - PORTRA 100T - TUNGSTEN

I have two Hensel Integra lights.

What gel(s) should I get to shoot this film, around my house, and keep the wonderful yellow tungsten look?

Thank you
 

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Shoot street lit scenes at night with no correction. I did that for years using the Jiffy Night Calculator for tungsten slide films.
 

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What gel(s) should I get to shoot this film, around my house, and keep the wonderful yellow tungsten look?

What "wonderful yellow tungsten look" to keep?
All classic colour films are designed to give a neutral tone at the respective standard lighting. For your film that is 3200K.

Moreover at CN films the match with the lighting temperature resp. any filtration is less critical as there is a compensating stage at enlarging. As you put this thread in an open forum, digital processing is possible too.
So you could achieve a yellow cast later.

But to yield highest colour saturation the aim at any CN film should be to choose light sourse resp. filtration as best as feasable to the standard lighting the film is designed for.
 

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When did it expire, or have something? If expired and not refrigerated you may notice color shift.
 

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Tungsten film is designed to correct for the amber tint of traditional incandescent lamps (specifically, as noted above, studio lamps that give off light at 3200 degrees Kelvin). Therefore, it's designed to subtract amber (or yellow, loosely speaking) from the image, not to add it. If you shoot it outside in sunlight (roughly 5500K) without a filter the result will be an excessively blue image. As AGX says, it was intended to render a neutral tone in tungsten light, not to enhance the amber bias.

One of the main uses of tungsten balanced films was the motion picture industry. Kodak 5219, the ISO 500 tungsten stock, was possibly Kodak's biggest seller because the cinematographer could shoot indoors (tungsten light or close to its color temperature) unfiltered, and take the same film outdoors but shoot through an 85 filter (amber-colored) and get a roughly neutral tone in both situations. In southern California, where the sun is bright, there was a lot of use of 250D stock (daylight balanced) because the 500T was too sensitive. But tungsten balanced film will not give you an amber-toned image unless you put an amber filter in front of it.
 
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