Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Alexey, Use either the new Konica 400 Professional or Kodak Portra 400. Both are very natural color and have wide exposure latitude. There are 2 versions of the Kodak a NC (Natural Color) and VC (vivid color). Your choice. The grain is tight on both, Kodak may have the edge with latitude. Can blow this up to 11 x 14 and you would never know they were 400 films. Peter K > ---------- > From: Alexey Merz[SMTP:alexey@webcom.com] > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Thursday, December 24, 1998 5:36 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Wedding pics (ugh) > > "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 >