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Copying color negatives with camera

Started Oct 13, 2014 | Discussions thread
OP AdHoc007 Contributing Member • Posts: 657
Re: Copying color negatives with camera

Just an update, awhile ago I ordered a swatch book from Rosco, which has a huge variety of filters, most important were the ones in the cinegel package, which had neutral density, and color compensation filters for every combination of Red Green and Blue.

So now my workflow is to first, use a negative of a picture that was properly exposed, take a picture of it and have the white balanced set to a fixed number, I'm using 5000k, I'm not sure what Kelvin my flash is. After taking the picture I go back to my computer and look at the histogram to see if the Red Green and Blue histograms are all in alignment. If not, I simply find the appropriate combinations of gel filters from the swatch book, place them over the flash.

My flash had an insert for filters, and it was the perfect size with the swatch book gels, accept, the heat from the flash was hot enough to warp the gel, instead I put them over the flash.

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Update-10-30-2014

The main Rosco gel that proved useful for most, but not all my negatives was labeled: 4360, 60 Cyan. The information on the color says it reduces red by two stops, which seemed to be enough to keep the colors balanced.

The other useful gels were labeled 3402 and 3404, both of them are neutral density which I use to reduce the power of the flash, that way I can keep the aperture on my camera lens fixed to f/8.

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