 Carrie Beattie |
what sepia filter is best I have a 35mm Nikon FM and would like to get a sepia effect, what is the best equipment and best way to go about this. What do I have to buy and do I use colour or black and white film?
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Jon Close |
The easiest way is to use color film and a sepia filter over the lens. This is not the traditional sepia-toned black & white, but may give the effect you're after. See http://www.tiffen.com/hi-res/Sepia-Compare.jpg for an example. With black and white photography, sepia toning is a process applied during printing - you don't do anything different when taking the shot. (b) With traditional b&w films (Kodak T-MAX, Tri-X etc., Ilford Delta, Fujifilm Neopan) printed on black & white paper, the sepia toning is a custom chemical process applied to the paper.
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Michael H. Cothran |
"Sepia" is a toning process used in conventional darkrooms to "brown" a b&w fiber-based print. Like selenium toning, it aids in the longevity of silver-based prints, while adding an orange colored hue. Selenium adds a purplish hue. Neither Sepia nor Selenium toning can be applied in-camera with b&w film. With some digital cameras, these processes can be mimicked or simulated in-camera, or even in post editing applications such as Adobe Photoshop. But with film cameras, sepia and/or selenium toning is applied in the darkroom, not in the camera. That said, you can add a "sort of" sepia toning to color images by checking out some of wierd color filters offered by companies such as Cokin. Cokin has some filters that will add a deep warming cast to your color film which will sort of simulate a color sepia look. But true sepia, which is a b&w fiber-based print application process, cannot be done with filters on the camera with film.
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Carrie Beattie |
Can you recomend a web site or a store that I would be able to purchase such a suitable sepia filter kit for my camera?
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