Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]--- Félix_López_de_Maturana <fmaturana@inicia.es> wrote, in part: > This > picture is slightly underexposed and rather grainy. > The wish of exploring > the limits of the Noctilux and the necessity of > getting the candles in red, > drove me to choose a colour 1600 ASA film which of > course restricted > strongly the contrast. Same picture in slower film > and with the camera > fitted on a tripod will have produced a better > result Even that is not certain. Yes, you would eliminate camera shake with the tripod and reduce grain with the slower film, but the long exposure time needed would increase the unsharpness due to subject movement. And obviously using flash would defeat the whole purpose of this shot. I think it is fine as it is. Nathan ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie