Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/02/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Austin, I generally prefer B&W for low light situations; but occasionally, color comes in handy, like in this photo which would have been less successful in B&W: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1166650 This was shot on Fuji Press 800, which I find works very well in difficult lighting situations. Nathan Austin Franklin wrote: > High speed color films...like with ISO 800. Color films have color balance. > That is why when you shoot color film without flash indoors, the pictures > come out yellow... OK, so what would be the purpose for 800 speed color > film, if you are going to get yellow pictures shooting with it in low light > conditions? It can't be for use with a flash, you'd be shooting at f22 and > using a really low powered flash... Even for outdoor use, for fast > sports...it might be useful for a very fast camera (as in fast shutter > speed), really stopped down...but I'd think you'd be hard pressed to really > "need" it. Under some circumstances, I could see it being useful...like if > the sky is overcast. > > 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. > > Austin > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2003.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html