Rogier van der Peijl wrote: > 1. Can anyone suggest a good film for night photography, the subjects > are illuminated, I will not be using flash and because of slow shutter > speed of course a tripod.
> 2. does anyone have experience with using UV film? (and of course can > you tell something about the experience) Hi Rogier, 1. Depends what you're shooting, and probably what the illumination is. Fuji (at least the consumer stuff) seems to be better at capturing blues and greens, while Kodak (again, consumer stuff) seems to be better at capturing reds and browns. Here are three night shots shot on Fuji consumer print film, just to give you an idea. (The first was shot on Fuji Super G+ 800 and scanned from the print, while the others were shot on Superia 400 and scanned from the corresponding negatives. The third one is actually a very short hand-held exposure.) I'd probably pick a Kodak emulsion if I was trying to capture something like a patch of red stellar nebulosity in the night sky, and I'd ideally pick a film with severe reciprocity failure if I were attempting to capture a meteor shower by shooting very long (several-minute) exposures of the night sky. Hope these examples at least give you an idea of what the Fuji consumer stuff is capable of. http://pug.komkon.org/01feb/7sisters.html http://pug.komkon.org/01aug/mars.html http://pug.komkon.org/02mar/diner23.html 2. I'm curious what you're trying to capture in the UV. You realize of course that unless you have very expensive and specialized quartz or fused silica lenses, you won't get very much (or any) UV intensity at the film plane. Are you actually trying to capture visible-wavelength fluorescence caused by irradiating your subjects with UV light? For this, conventional visible-wavelength color film should work fine. Otherwise, conventional silver halide B&W film will respond to UV irradiation, but you only get a B&W image, and of course, there's still the limitation with the lenses. Hope this helps, Bill Peifer Rochester, NY - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
