Originally Posted by
Eric Leppanen
If you can get hold of a July/August 2005 copy of View Camera magazine, Charles Cramer wrote an excellent how-to article on this subject. He recommended a Gossen ColorPro 3F color meter and a set of warming filters (he used an 81A, 81C, 81EF, 85C, and 84) for use when photographing under open blue skies in complete shade or prior to sunrise or after sunset. Back in the day I went in whole hog and picked up a used 3F meter and a set of filters (I settled upon an 81A, 81B, 81C, 81EF and 85C) which used singly or in combination covered all the lighting scenarios I expected to encounter. But unless you have your heart set on viewing fully color corrected chromes on a light table, in our current Lightroom/Photoshop scanning/printing era in-camera color correction is largely superfluous, as you can warm up your images to taste on your computer monitor.
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