Why use Tungsten film ?

[AutumnJazz]

To be quite honest, most of my shooting is done under flourescent. I don't know why, but the green cast never really ruins any of my photos. Using daylight/normal film under W doesn't look bad, either.

Maybe I just have bad eyes.

 

[wiltw]

Have you tried to FOCUS and then SHOOT thru an SLR with a blue filter on the lens?! That is why you want to use tungsten film, not daylight film and a blue filter!

 

[gandolfi]

When I paint with light in colour, I use tungsten film.
I've tried several types, bu tprefer any day the Fuji RTP II T 64iso.
Using a "bedlamp" as light scourse, the colour temperature is lower than normal for Tungsten, but not so low, that the colours on the film get orange..

The film has amazing deep saturated colours, and as said before, it is sharp and without grain.

try it - you won't regret it, I think..

 

[benjiboy]

It is 81 and 82 series filters that you use for minor tweaking of color temperature when using tungsten films. An 80 series is a major tweak. The tungsten film gets you in the ballpark of 3200-3400K, and the 81s and 82s are used to exactly match whatever tungsten lamps you happen to be using.

Your right on reflection, I'm sorry memory fades, its about fifteen years since I used Tungsten neg. film and hot lights in my studio, and switched to an Ellnchrom studio strobe system and daylight film .

 

[fschifano]

...tungsten is not always the same temperature.

Neither is daylight. During early mornings and late afternoons on clear days the light has a warmer color temperature more biased towards red. On overcast days the light has a higher color temperature that's more biased toward blue.

 

[srs5694]

Have you tried to FOCUS and then SHOOT thru an SLR with a blue filter on the lens?! That is why you want to use tungsten film, not daylight film and a blue filter!

Another filter issue: It's often expensive and/or difficult to obtain tungsten filters for some lenses. Lenses that take big front apertures are obvious examples in the "expensive" category. For "difficult to obtain," I'm thinking of lenses with peculiar filter types, such as a couple of Russian-made ultrawide lenses I've got (20mm and 16mm) that take very strange rear-mounted filters. The only way I can imagine to get tungsten filters for these lenses would be to have them custom made at a machine shop.

If you do a lot of tungsten light shooting, the expense and hassle of finding filters for odd lenses or those with big front elements would probably be worthwhile. If not, it's far easier and cheaper to just buy a couple rolls of tungsten film and forget about the filters on those occasions when you want to shoot under tungsten light.