Amber Dome for Lightsphere II?

Question

I bought Gary Fong's Lightsphere II (cloudy). I was watching the CD that came with the order and it talks about an amber dome that you can place over the lightsphere to help with the tungsten lighting. He kept saying to set your camera on tungsten, but my camera doesn't have such a setting. I have an EOS Canon Rebel X camera and there's no setting for tungsten. I'm wondering if this amber dome will work on such a camera that doesn't have the ability to make a setting to tungsten? will the amber dome correct the tungsten lighting?

Answer 1

Your equivalent of the "tungsten setting" from a digital camera is to use tungsten balanced film. This film is specifically used for shooting indoors under tungsten light, and should be available from a specialist photography store. The amber dome is used to match the light of your flash to the ambient tungsten light. Pictures shot with different kinds of light competing (window light and tungsten, naked flash and tungsten, tungsten and fluorescent) look uneven. You want all the light in your picture to be the same, whether you chose to correct it (white balance, film selection) or whether you leave it as is (for warmer pictures). So, yes, the Amber Dome can help you to shoot more accurately lit shots.