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ronlamarsh

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Will be shooting indoors under halogen light: do I need a tungsten balanced film or daylight? I rarley do color so i am not real experienced in these things. Thanks
 

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Without checking with a color temperature meter, and I have no halogen lights in my house, I'd say tungsten film.

You'd be better off with a test before the actual shoot. Try out various filters 'cause your light might not be exactly 3200°K. If the lights are on a dimmer than could be much cooler in temp, and thus more orange.

Personally, why not use color negative film, not transparency film.
 

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Will be shooting indoors under halogen light: do I need a tungsten balanced film or daylight? I rarley do color so i am not real experienced in these things. Thanks

Tungsten balance film is normally set for tungsten halogen and other long-life studio tungsten lighting (c. 3200K) not domestic light (2600-2850K).

On the other hand you may find that a 'warm' image from daylight film looks more natural -- or that a partial blue correction, 'splitting the difference', looks better.

After decades of experience, I'd only shoot tungsten-under-tungsten for the kind of advertising still life where I wouldn't want anyone to know what sort of light/film I've used. Normally, I find daylight-film-under-tungsten (warm) to look a lot better. Tungsten halide is, after all, almost exactly the same colour temperature (3200K) as the setting sun.

Cheers,

R.
 
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