Sodium/Mercury Vapor Lights

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4knewave

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How do you deal with them? Do both sodium and mercury (uncorrected) come out green on film?
 
They are both partial spectrum sources. Sodium comes out sort of yellow-orange (more pinkish on video) and mercury comes out deep cyan (blue-green.) But if you attempt to shoot under them and color-correct back to normal, you get a very monochrome image because of the missing wavelengths. You also can't gel them to be correct since they are missing certain color wavelengths.
 

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