Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/24
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"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?
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