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Short story, i am iff fown Aldwych saturday and the powers say no digital SLRs


So i am going to bluff it with film. Fuji 1600 or 800, what is it like?
 
Shoot at 1600 or even 3200 if you can. I shot my roll of Neopan 1600 at ISO800 but I reckon that 1600 would've given me more leeway in the platform areas.
 
I think pretty much all high iso film is actually about ISO 800-1000, it's just designed to be pushed to 1600/3200. As for what it's like, well just expect heavier grain, it'll most likely render like Neopan usually does, you could always search for shots taken with the films you are using on flickr, pretty much the first thing i do when i want to know what a film looks like.

A small film SLR like a Olympus OM series or Pentax M series with a 50mm 1.8 barely looks like an SLR, in fact some of my rangefinders are bigger than the Pentax ME Super. If was in this situation though i'd take my Olympus Mju-II compact, quick, discreet, sharp lens, even the AF uses infrared beams or something so it works well in the dark.
 
I've scanned in my shots from my tour - seems that a few were a bit blurry. Shoot at 1600!
 
Fuji Neopan 1600 is great ... when you use a compensating developer like Microphen or Pyro.

I'd find Neopan 400 pushed to 800 just as good as the Neopan 1600 pulled to 800, maybe because I'm used to using a compensating developer with it. if I changed, I'd botch up the roll..
 
Sectionate said:
Short story, i am iff fown Aldwych saturday
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Hey guys, please could some kind soul help an old fart out and explain what this means? The only iff acronym I know is "identification friend or foe" and I have no idea what a fown is unless it's a typo?:thinking:

and and the powers say no digital SLRs
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I suspect I need the answer to part a in order to work out how to approach part b. Surely everybody with a mobile phone has a digital camera? Surely a digital SLR will have high enough ISO capability to perform in lower ambient light without recourse to flash? :bonk:

Me no comprendo:bang:
 
Haha, it was an iPhone typo... should have said off down Aldwych Station!

The had specifically said no dSLR's, yet they allowed compacts etc etc...
 
Sectionate said:
Haha, it was an iPhone typo... should have said off down Aldwych Station!

The had specifically said no dSLR's, yet they allowed compacts etc etc...
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Aha, I see now and having googled it I also see where you've been, presumably iphone and all.

Still puzzled by the no DSLR thing though - or did you go with a photography group?
 
It's been covered by some of the London blogs recently, TFL have given a few reasons such as holding up tours, most people are guessing a good DSLR image might impede on TFL's commercial side of selling images of the station and so on. Justified or unjustified, who knows, but they are very very strict on the ban - luckily, I took my Pentax MX! :)
 
Convert it to B&W, the grain should hopefully add to the shot rather than diminish it. I missed having a D7000 down there as well. I was going to post my version of this shot but unfortunately it has a massive artefact on it which isn't cleaning up well in PS.

Also, I see a blue line - I'm not sure if you are using an Epson scanner, but the calibration area might be dirty.
 
Sectionate said:
Haha, it was an iPhone typo... should have said off down Aldwych Station!

The had specifically said no dSLR's, yet they allowed compacts etc etc...
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I think you've actually been mentioned in an Amateur Photographer news article about this!

http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/DSLR_ban_Row_escalates_as_officials_blame_spiral_staircase__news_310747.html

We apologise to visitors who wanted to use this kind of camera during tours to the station.'

Last weekend, photographer Tim Allen described the rule as 'idiotic'.

Fellow photographer Paul Vincent wrote on Twitter: 'One chap brought a 35mm [film] SLR.'

Another, using the Twitter name Emilio, used an iPhone to avoid falling foul of the regulations.

:lol::lol::lol:
 
Nice that using the Superia 1600 has given the shot 1960/70's colours, it has that look of something processed by a dodgy mail-order processor like Tudor Print :lol:
 
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