Day to Night?

Ken Brits wrote on 7/3/2010, 12:03 PM

Hi
I am starting a project where some of the footage must look as though it is night footage. Can anyone tell me which is the best way to go? Shoot in the day and darken in Vegas, or shoot at night using lights?

Thanks

Ken

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musicvid10 wrote on 7/6/2010, 9:48 AM

A Wratten 85 filter is a warming filter for shooting tungsten balanced film in daylight -- makes things orange.
Exactly the opposite what you said in your other posts.
As I mentioned before, 80c is the corresponding cooling filter.

Also, I looked up "Pola-Screen" and it was an Eastman Kodak patent in the 1930's, not Polaroid as you said (while citing a manual).

Memories are funny things, aren't they?
My first full-time job after college was as a QC tech at a Technicolor film lab, and I stayed in the the commercial end of things for over fifteen years while supporting my habit as a musician. Much of my technical education came straight from Rochester. And yet I still get things wrong, too. With that in mind, adieu.
;?)

arenel wrote on 7/6/2010, 3:54 PM

Check out Edwin Land on Wikipedia. By removing/dropping the 85 filter, you go to a 3200 K tungsten balance. Ektachrome Commercial was a tungsten balanced film.
Ralph