Sensitivity and Image Capture
John Child, Mark Galer · 2004
Digital image sensors are not interchangeable but some digital cameras allow alteration of the image sensor to its degree of sensitivity to light (ISO setting) and ‘white balance’ adjustments to allow for different light sources used in the illumination of the subject. Colour negative and colour transparency fi lms are easily and quickly distinguished in the shops by a number of identifying labels. Films ending with the suffi x ‘chrome’, e.g. Ektachrome, Fujichrome, are transparency fi lms. Film names ending with the suffi x ‘color’ are negative fi lms, e.g. Fujicolor, Kodacolor. Film boxes will indicate the type of processing required for the fi lm. C-41 indicates the fi lm is a colour negative fi lm whilst E-6 indicates the fi lm is a transparency reversal fi lm. E-6 processing is usually not carried out by high street mini-labs.