color correction from datestamp??

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false_dmitrii

Forgot to post this earlier. Most of my film pictures were taken with
my Olympus Stylus Epic (Mu II) with datestamp enabled. In this camera,
the datestamp is present as a series of "glowing" orange-ish dots; the
dots blend with the image on the outside, but internally they're pretty
solid. I suppose the camera just shines some LEDs on the film?

I never gave it much thought until now. Since the datestamp is always
present, would there be any hope of using it for at least a makeshift
color correction reference? I figure it's probably applied after the
shutter closes. If not, are there other factors that would make the
datestamp useless for color correction? Certainly the image's white
point would be different, but that's a trivial correction next to the
rest of the color interactions.

false_dmitrii
 
I understand what you are alluding to, but would sincerely doubt it
being of any use at all..
Partly because it is so.. orange.. In other words it is a very narrow
band of the spectrum, and wouldn't tell you much about the levels of
blues, for example..

But more importantly (and even if it was a whiter colour) white balance
is more about the lighting of the *scene*, and of course that is
independent of any light shone on the film... You would simply have
the exact same white balance applied to everything, and that's not
going to be very useful..
 
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