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[philip Lambert]

Is it possible to get a better colour balance by mixing fluorescent light
and tungsten or are we restricted to using correction filters viz fluo to
tungsten or fluo to daylight.  If we graduate to digital inkjet printing
does the software permit fluorescent light colour balance correction or is a
discontinuous spectrum always going to stay just that?  Maybe we should just
use electronic flash.  Daylight even. Philip
>
>     The piece of  equipment that most interested me apart from the camera
> was the bank of flourescent lights set in a large case that in its turn
was
> suspended in a frame. I had always been used to tungsten, QI or strobe up
> until then and eschewed flouros due to their odd colour effects. Of course
> the bulk of the studio work in that 30's period was monochrome so that
would
> not matter.     The large flouro bank would seem to be a relatively easy
thing to make
> in the Home shop. It would run cool if somewhat heavy and if diffused
would
> provide a large patch of light rather like a softbox.
>