Hello Charles
What about graininess-does it appear when you shoot at higher speeds?
Judy {:>}
At 08:30 PM 5/17/99 -0500, Charles R. Schultz wrote:
>You really don't have to go through all these gyrations, anymore. Kodak
>Gold Max film is rated at 800 ASA (or is it ISO?), but will give
>acceptable results at +/- at least 2 stops on the same roll of film
>without any special processing required, and, therefore, no extra
>expense for processing. I've shot with it at 3200 and at 100, and
>everywhere in between. That's at least a 6-stop latitude!
>
>It's a nice film for snapshots of all kinds of things, especially things
>moving across your view at high speed. It also gives you enough slack
>to work well enough when the sky won't make up its mind whether to be
>bright or dark. There's a newer, 400 speed, version of this film, too.
>
>There's a pro version of this emulsion (I don't remember the name,) as
>well as other, competing films by other manufacturers. I think maybe
>Polaroid had the idea first, with something called OneFilm(TM), or
>something like that.
>
>If I find the time, I'll scan a couple photos and post them.
>
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>Jay Mitchell wrote:
>>
>> Phil Ethier wrote:
>>
>> > > From: Judy Becker <judyb@cts.com>
>> > >
>> > > >Or you could get 100 speed film but put your camera's ASA to
400-that'll
>> > > >open up
>> > > >camera film speed.
>> > >
>> > > Either I don't understand what you are saying here, or it's utter
nonsense,
>> > > or its a joke.
>> > >
>> > > It seems to me that you are merely underexposing by two stops.
Hardly what
>> > > I would recommend for a quality photo.
>>
>> It's called "pushing," and it's not an uncommon technique. You have to
>> tell your photo processor that you've pushed the film, and they'll
>> compensate for the underexposure. I've seen somereally nice shots done
>> this way.
>>
>> Jay
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