Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>At 01:02 AM 11/15/2000 GMT, Dan S wrote: >>You're right on about the high speed film fetish. I guess there are times >>for everything, but in 20+ years of available light photography I have never >>needed film faster than 400asa. It's frankly amazing to me that a >>photographer who would dump so much into Leica lenses would even accept the >>results of a 3200 speed film. >> Well... you've been living on a different planet than the rest of us. All of my colleagues and I find plenty of use for 800, 1200, 1600 ASA speeds and fast lenses. This is an available darkness activity. When you are at 1/30th at f/1.4 on ISO 1600 film, you don't have a lot of incentive to use 400 film. You would be choosing between a sharp grainy photograph vs a blurry less grainy photograph. It doesn't take rocket science to figure this one out. During available light activities, everyone I know uses slow film. ASA 50, 100, & 200. Pretty simple concept. Jim