Micrography film

[Bobtheboulderer]

Hi all,,
When I used film some years ago I acquired the Mountain Photography book by David Higgs. Found it very informative before venturing to the Himalaya on a mountaineering holiday.
One of his shots was using micrography film (asa 16) which is a very slow film for indoor use, but when used in mountain photography, highlights and separates the ridges with a magenta filtering effect.
My question is.. does any one know of settings on my camera to replicate this.
Considering my cameras only go as low as 100 iso, and so do most I have seen.
I think using exposure and f-stop to slow, won’t give the filtered effect, or negative grain effect?
Ideas please..

 

[Harlequin565]

Hi Stevi, welcome to TP!

I'm assuming you're talking about your digital camera? You don't mention the model?

Either way, if digital, replicating it 'in camera' is going to be very difficult if not impossible.

Getting the 'film' look generally requires post processing and a lot of people have made a lot of money selling Lightroom settings to allow you to emulate the various films. You'd take the image normally then put it into some post processing software (photoshop, lightroom, elements, luminar etc etc) to get your results. I've just spent an hour with Google and found nothing (although 20 minutes was watching David Higgs so thanks for that!).

The alternative of course is to buy a film camera and start experimenting with unusual film! Micrographic film does appear to be available to buy but the website was completely over my head. I'm sure there are bigger brains in here though...

 

[Bobtheboulderer]

Thanks for reply Harlequin565.
I was hoping to use some white balance settings to get close to the film effect, to cut down on post editing in lightroom.
My main camera is my Samsung nx3000.
I still have my old Yashica fx3 which I used with micrography film, and got great shots in the Himalayas.
I might just acquire some film and experiment again with that.
thanks again