Halogen bulbs are Tungsten, so they are close to incandescent bulbs, but a bit cooler. If it only happened one time, it's probably just a fluke with the camera, like the single time that my camera took a shot and recorded 0 bytes of data (one time in 35K shots).
On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Doug Franklin <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2010-11-05 22:09, Christine Aguila wrote: >> >> Hi Charles: I tried to post these when your thread was up, but didn't >> get around to it--sorry for the delay. I was at a function a few weeks >> ago and tried to shoot this auditorium, but I couldn't get a shot that >> wasn't green. When I chimped after shooting, I was, to say the least, >> surprised & thought the k7 was on the blink. Another photographer at the >> function was having the exact same problem, but neither of us could >> account for the outcome, though we figured it had something to do with >> the lighting. > > This is totally speculative, but I must wonder if the lighting was creating > a severe spike in a very narrow band of visible frequencies that was > "disconcerting" the internal analog or digital circuits either, metering or > recording. I don't know anything about the response "curve" of halogens or > that sensor, though, much less those specific halogens. > > -- > Thanks, > DougF (KG4LMZ) > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
