Colour balance filtering

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Sparked by some strong blue casts on some slides I got back , I've spent a bit of time over the last few days reading up on colour balancing filters to precorrect casts. I think I'm happy with the general idea of it, but could easily see myself carrying unnecessarily many filters around. Anyone have any tips on a suitable minimum kit to avoid the worst casts and get my colours into the range easily handled in post?
 
I don't know how strong your blue colour casts are, but when I used to shoot in colour (long time ago), I normally carried an 81A & 81B 'warm-up' filter. Generally speaking on cloudy/dull days, the photographs tended to have a slight blueish cast which the above filters corrected.
 
81B and an 82A should see you right depending on intent. Depends on glass too, each lens has it's own colour. (Painfully obvious when you compare Zuiko and Vivitar glass on one roll of Ektar!)
 
Excellent. I'll have a look and see what filters I have knocking around from that set. Thanks :-)
 
Does anyone still make 81/82 series filters? I've been (not very seriously, I must admit) looking for these in either 77mm round filter or Hitech 100 square filter sizes and nothing much is turning up. Ebay is awash with the rangefinder sizes, but surely there must have been almost as many of these filters knocking about as there were MF cameras.
 
Hoya still make screw in ones and I think Cokin still produce most of the range in P size.
 
Thanks Alan, I'll have a look..
 
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