Basketball and a Noctilux

[arthury]

Originally Posted by robsteve

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My Lightroom calibration for the M8 is red hue +8, red saturation +1, bleu hue -8.

Thanks, Robert! Do you have any idea what type of lights they had in the stadium: were they mainly white or yellow-based sodium lights? I had a really bad experience with sodium lights and now, I am a little gun-shy about it ... and yes, I also shot a white piece of paper to create a custom WB profile at the location. Yours came out really nicely!

[robsteve]

Originally Posted by arthury

Thanks, Robert! Do you have any idea what type of lights they had in the stadium: were they mainly white or yellow-based sodium lights? I had a really bad experience with sodium lights and now, I am a little gun-shy about it ... and yes, I also shot a white piece of paper to create a custom WB profile at the location. Yours came out really nicely!

Were you shooting with a Leica? My Canon images never looked this good under the lights.

I think the mights might be a GE mercury vapour. I can't remeber, but they are 660v lights and the old film filtration was 40magenta and 10red if you were using geletan filters to correct for the lighting.

[arthury]

Originally Posted by robsteve

Were you shooting with a Leica? My Canon images never looked this good under the lights.

I think the mights might be a GE mercury vapour. I can't remeber, but they are 660v lights and the old film filtration was 40magenta and 10red if you were using geletan filters to correct for the lighting.

Nope, I was using my Nikon D2X and it cannot handle sodium lights even with custom WB but I have not used Expodisc with the D2X yet. It was awfully yellowish and extremely difficult to correct in software.

Oh, mercury lights are closer to moonlight, aren't they?

[robsteve]

They are probably closer to Daylight flourescent. The only difference in filtration being the 10cc of red. If you shot with a fld filter on daylight film, there would be a cyan cast.

A friend is shooting the same games with a D200 and his colours are a bit yellow as you describe.