Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]> From: "Robert G. Stevens" <robsteve@hfx.andara.com> > > I shot the hockey game this evening and tried pushing the new Provia 400F > two stops to EI1600. The results are much better than I was getting with > 800 print film pushed a stop. This is an awesome film for sports. I have > attached links to a scan. If this was on print film, the blacks would not > be totally black and would have a lot of grain. > > I used the 400 APO-Telyt at 2.8 and 360th of a second. Just a half stop > under 500th. In addition, I mounted a FL-Day filter in the drawer which > got rid of most of the green cast. When I scanned, the software got rid of > the rest. > > Perhaps Ted Grant with his sports expertise would like to comment on > this. He is probably familiar with results similar venues. > > The image is at the address below. The first is a 1024x700 134k image, the > second a smaller 800x600 80k image. > >http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/hockey/Jan7-2000.jpg > >http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/hockey/Jan7-2000sm.jpg > > > This is an image shot last season on Fuji800 print film pushed one stop to > EI 1600. It is much more contrasty and muddy looking, as most print film > looks compared to slides. > >http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/images/hockey/mooseheads4.jpg > Looks great! I gotta try some of that stuff. Doug Herr Birdman of Sacramento http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/telyt ___________________________________________________ The ALL NEW CS2000 from CompuServe Better! Faster! More Powerful! 250 FREE hours! Sign-on Now! http://www.compuserve.com/trycsrv/cs2000/webmail/