Film for Flourescent lighting

[Boonkia]

Hi,

whats the best colour film for skintones in flourescent lighting?

Thanks,

Henry

 

[sevo]

As of old E100G with a 30M filter for daylight FL tubes. With warm white light and CFL, you'll have to test your way through - there is quite a mess of sometimes very odd fluorescent spectra that have emerged with CFL, which nobody has published filter charts for as the spread of CFL coincided with the digital "white balance" age.

 

[Jamie123]

If you intend to scan the film I'd suggest just using a regular C-41 neg film like Kodak Portra 160 or 400 and adjust the color temperature in post. Take a reference shot of a grey card to make it easier.

Also, you haven't really told us what kind of flourescent lighting you're talking about. Do you mean any random FL lighting you might encounter in everyday life or do you mean proper professional FL lighting like, e.g. those from KinoFlo?

 

[Sparrow]

flourescent lighting comes in so many types these days it's almost impossible to tell, I just use Fuji Superia ... then sort out the colour afterwards

 

[Pickett Wilson]

There are filters made for FL, but, like everyone has said, it's really a crap shoot these days, with the FL color spectrum all over the place.

 

[ZorkiKat]

Some of the modern CFL actually put out daylight-balanced light. But many of them tend to fall short in terms of colour rendering. Not all FL have the same Colour Rendering Index- some good (like the FL's used in Kino Flo) and efficient, but many of the domestic lamps are not. The latter may put out the right sort of white, but the low CRI may cause certain colours to register poorly or off on film. For instance, bright red objects recording as red orange or mint greens as yellow. When this happens, post corrections will not just involve white balance, but others like selective channel saturation as well.

 

[aad]

Tri X. Or Acros.

 

[Boonkia]

Hei, thanks for all the replies. Types of flourescent?? I thought this was going to be simple. I planning to to take a series of shots in my office. Looking up, I can see within the same box, tubes giving off different coloured 'white' lights. I think I'll go with the advise of tweaking it on the computer. But are there any films that are least thrown off hue by flourescent?

 

[oftheherd]

Wasn't there a film back it the late 70s or early 80s that was said to give better results in FL lighting? I don't know if it is still made, if it will help with modern FL lamps, or even who made it.

 

[Sparrow]

I have few problems with fuji superia 400 and 1600

 

[tokengirl]

Tri X. Or Acros.

And a box of Marshall's Photo Oils. 😀

 

[dmr]

I've had reasonably good luck shooting plain off the shelf Fuji 400 in mixed and available light, including fluorescent. It's very forgiving for odd lighting situations.

 

[jpberger]

Fuji 800z if you can still find some. Amazing under weird light.