Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]"Richard W. Hemingway" <rheming@ibm.net> wrote: >It looks like I will be doing something I said I would >never do again. My grandaughter is getting married next >year and wants me to take some pictures at the wedding >reception. She will have a formal wedding photographer - >so I won't have to do that ( did it twice - not great). >What I want to do is take informal pictures at the reception >with my M6s. She turned down the idea of B&W, which I understand >is getting pretty popular again. So I will be taking color print >film. I don't yet know the light levels, but I imagine it will >be more on the darker rather than the lighter side. I will be >able to visit and take some readings well before the wedding. >[...] what is a good color print film to use?? I don't know the >type of lighting yet either. I really like the Agfa Portrait 160 print film. Great skin tones, lowish contrast, and *very* tight grain structure. The only reservations I have are that it might not be as fast as you'd like, and I don't know how well it handles mixed light sources, particularly fluorescent. A test might be in order there. I'm sure Eric Welch can suggest something faster if ISO 160 is not enough? .......................................................................... Alexey Merz | URL: http://www.webcom.com/alexey | email: alexey@webcom.com | PGP public key: http://pgp5.ai.mit.edu/ | voice:503/494-6840 | ...A democracy becomes hopelessly weak. and the general good | suffers accordingly, if its higher officials, bred up to | despise it, and necessarily drawn from those very classes | the dominance of which it is pledged to destroy, serve it | only half-heartedly.... - Marc Bloch, 1940