Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jean-Claude Berger wrote: > Hi George, > > I was yesterday in a French cathedral (Quimper, Bretagne). It's far > less dark than most I have seen because a restauration is going on. In > the most "sunny" places, I took some pictures at f/2, 1/15 to 1/4 s > with a 400 ISO film. I would not be able to take any picture with an > f/4 lens. Of course, the use of a tripod is not recommended (and often > prohibited) and so is the use of a flash. If I were you, I would > consider a Summilux for that type of shots. I've been shooting cathedral interiors all across the UK. There, they don't mind tripods at all and that way I get to use a *decent* film as opposed to 400 film, which I only use in case of *serious* emergencies. I use APX25 and the results are as one might expect of the film. Exposure can run into minutes, depending on the aperture. That's a good thing because it dissolves all those darn tourist into nothingness. Now, if you'd drag in a Hasselblad or worse, a view camera, you'd be in trouble because many (not all) cathedrals don't permit "professional" photography. But an M6 or R7 (without motor) isn't "professional", by the looks of it, so that works fine...... In one cathedral I spent an entire three days. I was approached only once, by a friendly lady who wanted to know what it was I was working on. B