Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey Guys- I use Fuji 800 colour negative for all stage performances for one of my client newspapers. For the cameras, a mixture of M6 and R5 with the appropriate fast lenses. Fabulous results even in the most difficult lighting situtations. Kevin Argue St. Catharines, Canada - ---------- >From: Howard Sanner <flagstad@mindspring.com> >To: Leica Users Group <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: Re: [Leica] High speed color films... >Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2003, 2:20 PM > > Austin asks: > > Does anyone actually use high speed color film for low light > indoor use? > If so, what have you noticed WRT color balance? What do you use > 800 > speed film for? > > Kodak has some new 800 Porta, which is why I'm asking. > > > To which I reply: > > Yes, I use them for taking pictures of indoor functions without > flash. I hate on-camera flash, esp. direct flash, and try hard to > avoid it. Ugh! Retirement parties, wedding anniversaries, and so > on. Typically when I do this people want 4x6 prints, and it's > well up to that. I don't remember ever enlarging any of them > bigger. At most places I photograph, using 800 speed film allows > f/5.6 @ 1/30. With a 35mm lens, with people moving slowly if at > all, this gives plenty of DOF, so that my focusing doesn't have > to be perfect (very nice for grab shots), and stops action and > camera shake adequately. > > I've also used TMZ @ 800 similarly, and with good results. > > I've done this with several different Leicas, from a 1936 IIIa > to a Wetzlar M6. So far, no one has complained about the results. > > I tried some ASA 400 Portra NC last June, taking pictures of > Sarah on our anniversary, with my M3 and several different > lenses. I didn't like it at all. It made her face look like > oatmeal. I admit that neither of us has youthful, perfect skin > any more, but this was really ridiculous. > > YMMV, and probably will. > > Howard Sanner > flagstad@mindspring.com > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html