Daylight film
Colour film balanced for subjects lit with a colour temperature source of 5500K.
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Colour film balanced for subjects lit with a colour temperature source of 5500K.
Daylight film
Film balanced to a colour temperature of 5400K which will give a natural result with 'daylight' and also 'flash'.
DAYLIGHT FILM - Color film designed to render correct color balance when exposed in normal daylight.
A camera equipped with a DEDICATED FLASH performs fully-automatic flash functions with simplicity.
Daylight film. Color film that has been balanced to produce natural-looking color when exposed in daylight.
Daylight Film: Colour film that is suitable for use in average daylight or with electronic flash without any filters. (balanced for 4500-6500 degrees Kelvin) ...
Daylight Film
A film color-balanced for average daylight and flash illumination - approximately 5,500K.
Daylight Filter see 85 Filter ...
Daylight film
Film balance to give correct rendition when shooting under average daylight and flash illumination, approximately 5500K.
This is why daylight film produces scenics and outdoor portraits with a bluish cast even during midday. Sometimes this can be very interesting artistically.
Pictures made on daylight film have a warm, yellow-red appearance. Those made on tungsten film have a colder more natural look; however, both films provide pleasing results, so it is a matter of personal preference which you use.
Other forms of artificial light yield strange colour casts on daylight film as well.
Daylight film is by far the most common. It is for use under (surprise!) daylight, and also most strobe or flash. Tungsten film is used under studio lights, known as hot lights (because they get real hot), which use tungsten filaments.
Kelvin as the white balance in digital cameras is just like using daylight film. This means that if you shoot indoors with tungsten lights, the pictures will have that yellowish cast just like the interior of the Vienna opera house (#4).
Film is made for specific light sources (most commonly daylight film and tungsten film), and used properly, will create a neutral color print.
Again, when shooting with film, outdoor shooting required a daylight film, and if you wanted to move indoors and shoot with tungsten lamps, you either had to filter the lens or switch to a tungsten-balanced film.
Overcast skies are slightly more blue (7000 degrees Kelvin) than the color temperature for which daylight film is designed (5500 K; a mixture of direct sun and skylight).
Not only is the colour and black and white but also portrait films, tungsten films, daylight films and so on. What a lot of us are used to is consumer grade film that tries to balance all of these in to one.
In film photography, not matching the colour temperature of the film & process to the lighting of the subject can result in pictures looking, for example, overly red or yellow (daylight film used under indoor lighting), ...
For example use a daylight film (most films you buy) in tungsten light (which is ~ 3200 Kelvin) without a flash and your pictures came out reddish...
If you use daylight film under tungsten light the images will be very yellow. If you use tungsten film in daylight the images will be very blue.
Occasionally she'd tripod-mount her Speed Graphic loaded with Fujifilm 160NC daylight film in a parlor or attic known for ghostly sightings. It was an intuitive process, imagining where a ghost might be and how it would appear.
there are daylight films, tungsten films, and films designed for other light sources). If there is a mismatch between the film and the light source, corrections need to be made, or inaccurate colors will result.
Tungsten light used with daylight film gives an orange cast. Tungsten film shot outdoors gives a blue cast.
 See also: Light, Daylight, Film, Photograph, Balance
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