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Color Correction

  • From: T3D Steve Spicer <s.spicer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Color Correction
  • Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 15:52:59 +1100
At 8:22 PM -0800 28/10/96, John Bercovitz wrote:
>I wonder what color accuracy is "good enough".  I understand that the eye
>can adapt but that doesn't explain why all these 5500 degree light tables
>are made.  Some temperature must be high enough but I wonder what that is.

Yeh - some temperture must be high enough - but wouldn't there be an
optimum color temp for a given film (depending on what it was designed
for). Is the optimum for viewing illumination 5500K?

My own experiments with colour filters to shift the illumination
temperature up seemed to look too blue beyond about 4300K (and that's
roughly speaking - I was using a standard incandescant lamp - say 3500K,
plus a filter gel that was marked as giving an 800K increase). The
exepreince left me wondering if I was best off with a color temp around
3800K.

Steve Spicer


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