Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/8/02 1:39:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, henryting10@yahoo.com writes: > Ahhh Seth, a horse-racing fan. > I always wanted to hang a tele-shot picture of a > colorful race blownup to poster size in my living > room. > Have you ever taken such pictures, especially > night-time racing ? If you have, what kind of film > would best suit the floodlights on a race-course. Aha Henry: I'm only a mildly enthusiastic race fan. And nighttime racing to me means harness track. I believe almost all thoroughbred racing is daytime. That said, no I have not done much race photography. If I were shooting at night, it would almost certainly be b+w and since I'd be using tele lenses (ergo slower) it would be a fast film, not less than 400. Curiously I'm in the throes of deciding on the b+w 400 film I want to standardize on. The chromogenics are very attractive for ease of processing (I don't have my own darkroom) and they have an extremely forgiving exposure latitude. But they seem to lack a bit of contrast and there is always the question about their archival quality. For color, I'm a hopeless information resource. I almost never use color print film and none of the color reversal films (I use one of the Kodachromes almost exclusively) has the speed. Hope this has not been too unhelpful. Seth LaK 9 - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html