Hi All, this summer I got a Polaroid 4X5 Mod 545 film holder, and then I went ou t and bought a box of Type 59 Professional Color Sheet Film which is just a litt le expensive I might add. Anyway, I started taking photos with this combination only to find that I my pictures had just a little bit of too much blue in them. To make a long story short, Polariod states this film is balanced for daylight a t 1/125 of a second. This is a problem, as many of my favorite lenses are in shu tters that are only capable of 1/60 or 1/30 of a second. Polaroid does list a nu mber of filters to correct the color balance at slow speed. Filters like: CC30R and CC10Y or CC40R or CC60R. Well the cost of these filters is prohibitive on my buget. To top that off, when I asked the guy who sold me the film what this fil m was used for, he indicated that the only purpose it had was for checking the f lash/lighting of shots, and once the photographer found out how the lighting was , then they tossed the photo. I'd like to keep the images.
Does anyone have any experience in using this film in daylight at slow speeds? I s there another way to get good color from this film without the expensive filte rs? I notice the speed drops off pretty fast slower than 1/125; is this a proble m with the color? I'd like to experiment with using it, and then scaning the ima ges. Thanks.
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