I've gotten so damned tired of sorting through dozens of very-similar digital shots of a subject, trying to find the one that's "best", that I have cut way back on my exposures.
Except, of course, when I went out shooting at twilight on Saturday… Rick http://photo.net/photos/RickW On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 2:59 AM, Malcolm Smith <rrve...@virginmedia.com> wrote: > Bipin Gupta wrote: > >> a) With 400 ASA film I would go down to 1/30 sec and f 2 to capture >> street scenes at night, with excellent translation on print. >> Using TAv mode on the the K20D or the K-5 IIs with the same >> settings the camera would choose 1200 ASA or more. >> I would assume that film is more forgiving. Actually cannot explain >> this. A mystery to me?? > > Oddly enough, I've always assumed it's me being a lazy photographer. When I > used film it was, say ISO 100, that was what you had to work around. Modern > DSLRs seem to want to pump up the ISO a bit, and I'd never really thought > too much about it, because most modern DSLRs take amazing images even when > you crank the ISO up really high. > > Sometimes it's too easy to get out of the tripod exposure zone with a modern > DSLR. > > Anyway, I will get to use some low ISO film shortly, and I'm hoping that a > 36 exposure roll of film will make me think more about the image I'm > composing. Hopefully, this discipline will be there to transfer back to the > DSLR. Maybe that is what I need to gain from film again, more than anything > else? > > Malcolm > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
