Bob,
The Fuji S3 is one fine camera. My S2 did everything I asked of it very
well.
When it comes to color balance and the types of lights in the layout
room you have many choices. Doing a white balance calculation in the
camera is probably the best thing to do, or if you shooting RAW or JEPG
using the RAW converter (part of PhotoShop) you can set it at your
desk. I often do it later. Shoot a gray card or dimly lighted white
object and probe it later. If you shooting 100 shots under the same
conditions, probe one shot and it can automatically correct them all.
I have used every kind of lighting that man and God has created. I
generally shoot with strobe lights as they don't get hot, you can do
multiple "pops" to create more light and I use them for my daily work.
I do have some 'hot' lights that I keep at home for smaller setups. My
layout itself has fluorescent tubes for general lighting plus I have
track lighting for when I have open house or when I need to work in the
corners when I cast shadows on my work. I recently worked on a large
double decked layout with those valances that I hate with a passion.
There simply isn't enough room for the lighting to be even or for me to
add much to help. In this case I devised a 'light' using four sockets
and CFL spot lights to be used as a 'key' light to add some life to the
shot. I worked fairly well.
Bob Werre
BobWphoto.com
>
> doncha' love it when the slave knows more than the master? Reading all
> this makes my Fuji S3 (and '56 Fords) look better all the time, and
> when I first got it, about all it could do is make my Fuji S9000 look
> better.
>
>
> Right now, I'm having white balance problems shooting layout photos
> with the S3. I use warm CFL's to light the layout, and of all the
> white balance settings on the camera, the incandescent setting does
> the best, and even then is a little green in the pictures.
>
> I can always substitute daylight photo floods, or even regular
> incandescent light bulbs for the CFL's if I have to, I guess. I did
> that once. We simply put daylight photo floods in incandescent sockets
> in a modeler's layout room, and the slides came out great with
> Kodachrome 64.
>
> What kind of lighting do you use on your layout, Bob?
>
> Bob Nicholson ____________________________________
>
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