dark_willow
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Reged: 23/02/2006
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Loc: Southampton
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I'm travelling next month and am hoping to be shooting some urban scenes and will mostly be using black and white but also a few colour shots. I'm looking for a film that will give a very strong grain and subdued tones. I'd rather use a lower speed film if possible as my on board light meter support >400 ISO only and I'd rather avoid using an external meter as am hoping to get candid shots.
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Mojo_66
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Reged: 25/05/2006
Posts: 3423
Loc: Lancs
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Kodak Gold 100 has quite coarse grain iirc, not used it too much though. You could always push it to 400 (or the highest ISO setting your camera has) to increase the grain. Alternatively you may find the latitude of print film will cope with slight variations in exposure and once you've taken an initial meter reading, if the light conditions don't vary too much you may be able to stick to it.
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Woolliscroft
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Reged: 23/08/2005
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Slow film and high grain don't really mix. Why not just meter at 400 and do the mental arithmatic to translate the readings for a much faster film?
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Tacitus
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Reged: 17/01/2006
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For a moderate outlay you could always buy a 110 camera, many people are happy to get rid of them nowadays. Add 400 ISO film and there's plenty of grain ... but what to do next is the real question. Possibly scan the negs on a flatbed scanner? .A.
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robc
old hand
Reged: 05/01/2006
Posts: 1021
Loc: London
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High grain on a slow film...?
Suggest you could either add the grain effect in photoshop later, or as David suggests, use a faster film and do the math...or there must be a chart somewhere out there that will give you the reciprocal exposure settings to shift to.
Fuji Superia 1600 is a nice, fast, grainy colour film.
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SqueamishOssifrage
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Reged: 13/09/2006
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Alternatively, if your camera has an exposure compensation dial, use Fuji Superia 1600 with the film speed set to 400, and dial in two stops of under exposure, to save doing the math.
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dark_willow
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Reged: 23/02/2006
Posts: 11
Loc: Southampton
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Going to go with the Superia 1600. I don't have exposure compensation on my camera (It's a Zenit 11, so no such decadent luxury) but it's easy enough to compensate for really, I'm just being lazy. LOL. This should bring some interesting results.
I'm going for the similar style in B&W and well and have settled for Ilford Delta 3200 treating it as 1600.
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AJUK
Reged: 22/03/2005
Posts: 2698
Loc: UK
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I think AP ruined the F6 review by using Kodak Gold!
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