Forgetting about the indoor filter...

[Levi]

I don't know about you guys, but sometimes I'm outside shooting with K40 and forget to turn off the indoor filter. I hate that! It makes me so mad, I did that earlier this week, I got some great stuff, but now it's going to be blue. Luckily my new Nizo has a LED light in the viewfinder to indicate whether it's on or not.

Corey

[Alex]

The wording can be so confusing when describing the 85 camera filter. For newbies, when shooting outdoors with indoor balanced film, the 85 filter is used to add a "warming" orange color to the image being captured by the lens, which gives a better coloration to the film when it is then developed.

When shooting indoors with indoor balanced film, the 85 filter is "removed" from the image being captured by the lens, because it is not needed for indoor filming.

The lack of an 85 filter for indoor shooting gains the cinematographer 2/3's of one f-stop of sensitivity.

When you forget to use the 85 filter indoor rated film on outdoor shots, white skys will usually give away the electronic color correcting one can do to "correct" the too blue look.

If you don't have white skys in your shot, you might be able to save the footage.

[Mike Buckles]

I've forgotten the filter before, and my camera has a lighted indicator in the viewfinder!! Yes, it does give a bluish hue to the picture, but if you do transfer it to video, as Alex suggests, I'll be you could at least improve, if not correct it...I don't think the footage will be a total loss.