Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At the newspaper I work for, we've discovered that Fuji 800 gives much better results when pushed to 1600, and even 3200 than when Fuji 1600 is used straight, or pushed. We shoot a lot of high school night football under horrible lighting conditions, where we have to maintain at least 1/250 shutter speed no matter what. I haven't ordered Fuji 1600 in at least 4 years. Scott Sanders > ---------- > From: Don Dory > Reply To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2001 7:50 AM > To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us > Subject: Re: [Leica] Fuji Provia 1600 > > A half hearted recommendation as the film does produce a recognizable > image. > > The grain looks like sand and the shadow detail goes black, that's a good > thing as Dmax should be black and the contrast including microcontrast > goes > way up. This is a special purpose emulsion for times when an image is > more > important than the what it looks like or for an artistic look, not to be > confused with an every day high speed film. If you want normal looking > images in the dark you should look at 400 speed Provia F and push it one > or > two stops. > > Don Dory > dorysrus@mindspring.com > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html