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Re: [OM] Yellow Pics

Subject: Re: [OM] Yellow Pics
From: Garth Wood <garth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2001 09:04:56 -0700
At 02:35 AM 1/13/2001 -0500, you wrote:
>I took several pics indoors at Christmas with my OM-2S with 50mm f/1.4, using 
>Kodak Gold 200 without flash.  Every one of them has a yellow cast to it.  
>The flash pics all turned out fine.  Any ideas as to why the yellow tone?  
>Incandescent lighting?  Is that why they call it "Gold"???


Yep, that'd be the most likely explanation.  It's usually balanced for 
"daylight" (mean noon sunlight at Washington, D.C. -- somewhere around 5,000 to 
5,500 degrees Kelvin).  Incandescents are much "redder" than daylight.

Garth


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