I have read that the digital cameras are less forgiving of light temperature variations where film is more forgiving. An old wives tale?
Less forgiving or more accurate?
We seldom had to balance flash heads when we shot film but now everything has to be balanced, otherwise you get pools of colourcast all over the place.
And it's very small shifts - we have strobe heads with maybe 5mm strips of yellow and 3mm of red round the tube to take out a blue/cyan cast. Some white cards we used to use as fills now bounce back a noticeable pink light and we've had to stipulate various matt silvers as a replacement.
The trick, if you have to do this is to nominate your most popular light as the benchmark standard and calibrate each other light to it. Take a sheet of neutral grey paper/formica and place a sheet of black card at right angles to it (facing the camera). Put your "master" light on the left and the test lamp on the right and shoot a preview. Then neutralise the grey on the left and see how much the other half of the picture differs. Add bits of rosco gel or similar to the test lamp until they match.
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