Cindy Shaw wrote: > . I have in the past > taken my pictures outside and not used lights and seemed to have a lot > better luck with natural light. With the lights the pictures are so > orange and the photo labs can't seem to get the coloring right. I'm > tired of paying their costs!!. At first I thought it was the photo lab > that I'm using but now I'm not so sure. They just don't look good. > CINDY-CALIFORNIA It sounds as if you need a filter to balance the light from the copy stand - probably tungsten. Check the data sheet for your film and see what filter is recommended (probably an 80A or 80B filter) for tungsten light or use tungsten balanced film. The reason your outside photos look good is that the film is balanced for daylight. A good reference is the Kodak book Copying and Duplicating Photographs (Publication M -1). This book is available in most libraries. -- Carroll Hughes PHOTOGRAPHY and DIGITAL IMAGING, PHOTO RESTORATION email: mailto:hughescck@citcom.net Visit my website: http://www.cool.icestorm.com/chughesphoto/