How should I process tungsten film shot with a flash in very low tungsten light, indoors at night, and keep good skin tones.

-- bart (bart@hotmail.com), August 26, 2001

Answers

E6 is E6 is E6 is E6... The only changes you can make are push or pull.

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), August 27, 2001.

In other words, there is no way to correct tungsten film for the 'daylight' flash in processing the film. The slides will be blue where the flash lit things.

You can probably get nearly corrected prints made, either via computer scanning, or traditional printing at a custom lab. And you may be able to 'gel' the slides for projection by remounting them sandwiched with 85a/b filter material (the same salmon-colored filters that would have balanced the flash to the tungsten film during exposure). Hope for some frames that are a little overexposed - the gel filter will darken the image some.

And who knows....maybe the blue images will look really wild! Lots of people warm up their flash with 85a filters on daylight film (to make the flash look like tungsten). You did the same thing, only in reverse. Might be a good effect!

-- Andy Piper (apidens@denver.infi.net), August 27, 2001.

The film is neg not slide. Would that make a difference.

-- Bart (bart@hotmail.com), August 27, 2001.

Process C41 and do whatever colour correction you want.

Cheers,

-- John Collier (jbcollier@powersurfr.com), August 27, 2001.

Process C41 and do whatever correction you need to IN THE PRINTING stage... Sorry for the earlier post, I should have realized it could have been Tungsten negative film you were referring to...

-- Jack Flesher (jbflesher@msn.com), August 27, 2001.