Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/01/08

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Provia 400F pushed to EI 1600 and Leica 400 2.8
From: Doug Herr <merlin@flyingemu.com>
Date: 8 Jan 2001 13:58:09 -0800

> 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
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