2007-03-22 00:50:31 · 4 answers · asked by hot_hotlips59 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Photography
Tungsten lighting such as your typical 60 watt light bulbs,or studio hotlights, produce a yellow-orange color. This lighting is quite unlike natural daylight, or light which is produced by strobe lights or flashes which emit a somewhat blueish color. Tungsten balanced film takes into account that indoor artificial light is a yellow orange color and thus balances the color so that the colors are neutral and do not have a yellow orange color cast. Here is an article on the subject of tungsten balanced film http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten_film
2007-03-22 03:51:55 · answer #1 · answered by wackywallwalker 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Tungsten balanced film is designed to give y ou a red tint free photograph taken under tungsten lamps. If the lamps in your house are not flourescent (which takes another balance or filter), then they are tungsten.
You can take pictures indoors without a flash, using tungsten lighting, by using a filter on your lens - check with your camera store.
2007-03-22 08:06:06 · answer #2 · answered by Polyhistor 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are only two users of tungsten film. 1. portrait studio photographers that set lights, not flash or skylight. and 2. motion picture studios, shots for scene continuity in case the lighting and setup has to be re-done if a take is rejected. High quality flash equipment has eliminated the need for tungsten film outside of Hollywood and NYC.
2007-03-22 16:27:28 · answer #3 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its to balance color from a scene lit with tungsten lighting...usually outside lights like the type in NYC
2007-03-22 08:59:27 · answer #4 · answered by rick p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋