Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/05/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Back when I shot TV news, in the late '70s, we had a chart showing all of the basketball arenas in the area with the filtration and exposure. Some were truly horrendous and it was very difficult to get a decent image with a film camera. As we made the transition to video the problem suddenly went away. We could white balance for the worst color. We had a switch to increase the gain of the camera but it was fairly noisy. Still, better than no image. Mike D DrLarryIPresume@aol.com wrote: > Sorry to say, but this is where new technology may have some answers... I > shoot basketball games (high school/college), and the light is always a lot > worse than it appears- I have always shot black and white and pushed my film to > around e.i. 1000 to get 1/125th sec. at f/2. But I recently started playing > around with a high end digital camera (which shall go nameless)... for the > first time, I shot color at a game, by tuining up the speed to 1600, and the > quality was fine! And being albe to review shots at time outs and discarding the > bad ones as you go is great! The real problem would be, if you NEED slides, you > would have to get a digital projector, and those are still very pricey. But > it is SO great being able to change the film speed at will, no > loading/unloading/carrying five films/having partially-shot rolls. For some things, digital is > great. Larry > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >