Low light shooting. 3200 film or push trix? colour options?

MindofMel

MindofMel

Suspended / Banned
Messages
1,586
Name
Mel
Edit My Images
Yes
Hi peeps,

Looking at doing some gig photography, on film. Ilford 3200 is bordering £7 a roll... worthit? Should i just push tri-x to 1600/3200? If so, anyone recommend a developer/times etc..

Any colour options for low light stuff..

Might take my bronica along but 35mm predominantly thinking of.
 
Delta 3200 is only ISO 1000 (see Ilford's data sheet).

I don't often push film but I have had more luck with pushing delta 400 to EI 1600 than I had with Delta 3200 at EI 800 - 1600.


Steve.
 
MindofMel said:
That's an epic shot Nick!
Click to expand...

Thanks, at the time I wasn't sure what the policy was on taking cameras, so I took a cheap one in case it got confiscated. If I'd known that anything amateur was OK, then I would have taken my Yashica Electro 35. One thing to bear in mind for low light is that a leaf shutter is worth a stop or two in terms of being able to hand hold low shutter speeds. With regard to that, I've always found that Tri-X at 800 was fine for night time with the Yashica and I didn't get too much motion blur.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47119506@N03/6054067726/
 
I read a good tip in Gene Nocon's Darkroom Printing book.

He suggested that for night time and dark area (e.g. concert) photography, you should under expose by one or two stops from what your meter suggests.

this is because the camera's meter tries to render every scene as if it is an 18% reflectance daylight scene.

For concert and other night time shots you actually want to see that it was darker than daylight.


Steve.
 
If your going to push then you would be better off using T-Max 400 rather than Tri-X as the grain is a lot more controlled.
 
s162216 said:
If your going to push then you would be better off using T-Max 400 rather than Tri-X as the grain is a lot more controlled.
Click to expand...

T-Max 400 and a good developer like XTOL/T-MAX, if you don't want to shell out for Delta 3200 (which I don't think is a particularly nice film, to be honest).
 
oooo no, love 3200, its not offensively grainy but still grainy in that its the first thing you notice.
I think what 3200 does so well is maintain texture and detail whilst being grainy.

If you're looking for grain to be "the" feature, pushing is the way to go.

Neopan 1600 ain't too bad neither..
 
Neopan 1600 is a very interesting film, but sadly the newest you'll find will be expired July 2012, and the prices for rolls is quite high.

A two stop push with a fine grain ISO400 film and a good developer should be okay really.
 
Back with the Plustek scan:

2A4oyih.jpg


100% crop (scanned the neg at 3600dpi, was about 5000px on the long edge):
OfnYy47.jpg
 
Tri-X rated at 1600 and dev'd in Rodinal (RO9) Nikon F100 & Samyang 85mm f1.4 lens.

9408834758_6864937487.jpg
URL], on Flickr


Seemed to do the job for me.
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top