Does halogen give off a purely white light, or will it be off white in my photos?

Question

Like how tungsten light bulbs give off a more orange-ish glow as opposed to purely white light, is this the same for halogen?

I figured the Photography Section would be the best place to ask this because I believe lighting and the spectrum and such, etc, is something most professional photographers would know.

I don't, stupid cheap digital cameras and their lack of white balance. I guess I'll have to do some more adjusting.

*there oops

Actually Atoni, my camera has no way of messing with the White Balance. I've checked numerous times online at Kodak and in the manual, nothing. Which is why I've had to compensate and use daylight aka full spectrum bulbs and avoid anything that isn't in this spectrum range.

If you recheck this Question, it's a Kodak EasyShare Z650.

*Edit* Wow, just found it, thanks, it's terribly confusing. Anyway, I may use the color filters if my local hardware store doesn't stock daylight halogen flood lights.

Answer 1

Every light source has a characteristic spectrum.

Quartz-Halogen have spectrums that go between something like 2400 to 2800 Kelvin depending on the voltage.

Tungsten-Halogen is somewhat higher, something like 2800 to 3000 Kelvin.

The lighting wil be as orange or more orange than tungsten so, unless you have a digital camera that you can compensate for this with, your images will be way off white.

Vance

If you have photoshop, check out this link.

http://www.thelightsrightstudio.com/TLRCCFilters.htm

You can download an action set that effectively acts the way that color correction filters would in a film darkroom. This was common in the day. Not all color correction was done by flitering the lens or light sources. This may be an alternative.

If your digital camera has modes, one of them should be tungsten. Try using that with the TLR actions. Using the tungsten mode will make the response of your camera closer to the halogen and make correction easier.

Answer 2

Halogen White Light

Answer 3

Seamless, I am certainly not arguing with you about the color temp of halogen bulbs, I have no idea. But I do know when we used to have one in my living room, my Canon Powershot G6 handled it fine on AWB, but any speed film, (100, 160, 200, or 400) had a weird greenish-blue cast unlike regular fluorescent lights. We broke the lamp and got rid of it and the color cast went away. I told hubby no more halogen.

Answer 4

well I seem to answer this alot, and no one gets it? then i get get thumbed down?

refer your camera manual, look for white balance manual setting of.

as per the instructions put camera on custom or manual white balance, use a white piece of paper where you will have what your capturing, set the white balance- thats it but follow the book.

thats it its ready, take your snap

white piece of paper to set white balance always works for me


EDIT: you can use colour corection gels over your lights, the light your using gives a warm glow right? use blue gels to makie it "colder"singles layer, double or triple to correct the colour temp of your lights

give the model of your kodak, please the actually bit is a bit unnessicary, how do i know what camera you use?

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