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Old 05-15-2007, 08:40 PM
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Originally Posted by vistasucks View Post
actually, you can set tungsten lighting on your camera..

Thats what I was talking about, not actually using your own flourescent light
What you are setting is the white balance; you're not changing the light coming into the lens. Read the page at the link I posted earlier (or re-read it), what you did by setting your white balance to tungsten is to tell the software in the camera that you were using a warmer light source than you actually used. The software applies the electronic equivalent to an 80A filter and attempts to correct the color cast, it's just not smart enough to know you set it deliberately to another value. :-)
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