Re: RE: Re: Portra 400UC

2002-12-28 Thread PERK1518
Re: RE: Re: Portra 400UC Dave wrote: << Because the parent lab can now proccess B&W film,he is stocking Tmax 100/400 film.At least i don't have to drive 45 min to pick B&W film up now. >> Wow! Every now and again I'm reminded of my age. When I was first shoo

Re: Portra 400UC

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
I would shoot at 250. That's going to give you a margin of error. I think that even 200 would be okay for flowers, which might benefit from a bit of extra contrast. Most films seem to be rated high, even the transparency stocks. Paul > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailt

RE: Portra 400UC

2002-12-27 Thread tom
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > So, I dropped of the roll for processing thinking I'd have a great > demonstration. Between the exposure latitude of 400UC and > the magic of the > Fuji Frontier, I had 10 "acceptable" shots and two fairly > ba

re: Portra 400UC

2002-12-27 Thread gsinos
-- [EMAIL PROTECTED], on the subject of Portra 400UC mentioned his first roll showed surprisingly good skin tones, and about 1/3 or the shots were underexposed. I'm glad to hear the skin tones are good. My first couple of rolls of people shots come back from the la

Re: Portra 400UC

2002-12-27 Thread Paul Stenquist
I shot my first roll of Portra UC a few days ago. I metered it at 320, and since I was shooting some snow scenes, I used an incident meter. The exposures are nice. I had just finished a roll of Plus-X, so my meter was set at 100 when I began. I forgot to change it before the first shot and overexpo