Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/07/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I plan to be travelling in pensylvania this week and will be passing a rusted >up steel mill. I plan to take some time to photograph this with my M3 and >brand new 50 summicron. Any ideas for film? I think I will be shotting >primarily color print but maybe some chrome too. Any thoughts on such a >progect. I'll be metering with a handheld minolta incident light meter so the >sparking off the rust shouldn't affect the exposure. >Any advice will be helpfull. > >-- >Michael Garmisa <elmar@webreach.com> >30-Jun-98 17:34:59 Hmmm, Fuji Astia has nice reds and good tonality, you might give that a try for a slide film. For prints how about 25 ISO Kodak (used to be Ektar, maybe now Royal Gold?). It's got high contrast, good color saturation, and very fine grain. - -Charlie