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Re: [Digital BW] Re: Color slides of Ultrachrome prints... magenta?

2003-11-06 by Mark Savoia

Why dim? Use them at full power.
Mark
On Nov 6, 2003, at 12:57 AM, Martin Wesley wrote:

> * -----Original Message-----
> * From: David Wroblewski [mailto:dawroblewski@...]
> * Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 9:48 PM
> * To: DigitalBlackandWhiteThePrint@yahoogroups.com
> * Subject: [Digital BW] Re: Color slides of Ultrachrome
> * prints... magenta?
> *
> *
> * One addendum to my previous message. I was just looking over
> * the film specs for EKTACHROME 64T on the Kodak web site and noticed
> * this statement:
> *
> * "For best color rendition, use tungsten photolamps (3200 K) at
> * their rated voltage. If voltage varies significantly, the color
> * of the lamp will change."
> *
> * I had my lights rigged up to cheap hardware store dimmer
> * switches, set at about 1/2 brightness. Thinking I was clever.
> * I wonder if that was all it took to turn the slides magenta.
> *
> David,
>
> The dimmer would lower the voltage and that would result in a warmer  
> color
> temperature from the lights. Your best bet would seem to be the Scala 
> or
> having the files output to slides.
>
> Martin
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