Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/12/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Simon- One- Fuji Supra is a wonderful film for mixed lighting! It has the fourth emulsion like the Reala films- from what I understand, that is a feature to all the new Superia films. Even if you don't use filters to correct- I have been able to balance gymnasium and flurescent lighting on these films in printing! Very good stuff! If you don't use a spot meter- try to take a reading of the stage lights with an incident meter before the show- any other metering will largely read the mostly dark stage area, and you end up with horribly over exposed central subjects in a largely underexposed background! I have had good results, when I used an R system, with an Elmarit 180/2.8 shooting at even f4 with a brightly lit subject on stage, and gotten great results. Keep in mid that stage lighting can be hard to judge- often what seems like someone lit with a white light is actually a trio of red, green and blue fresnel lights aimed at one spot! This can lead to a color fringing that will at first seem off putting, but that's the nature of the beast! They often use that setup so that the lighting director can make the point on stage any color desired by merely controlling three lights! Good Luck! Dan - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon Lamb" <simon@sclamb.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 5:29 AM Subject: [Leica] Film for school play > I will be photographing the school play for our local school which will be > held in an assembly hall. I have been told that there will be no light > apart from the stage spotlights, which I assume will be halogen. > > Can anyone share their experience of working in such lighting with regard to > the best type of film. I will probably take an ISO800 film (colour neg) > with my M6, the 35 f/2, 50mm f/2 and Noctilux. I expect to be no less than > thirty feet from the stage and possibly further back than that. I have a > some Portra 800 and Supra 800 in the fridge at home, but I am open to being > guided by those who have worked in these conditions and have real world > experience of different types of film. > > Many thanks. > > Simon > >