Hi everyone -
Thanks for the responses. I was trying to make my original post concise,
but I guess I left out too much information -- I have tried this already,
with mixed results. Full story for anyone interested:
When I shoot ice hockey, the arena where I usually shoot has uneven
lighting, but overall, it's a bit too dark for ideal conditions, i.e.,
shooting at exposure speed of 1/250 second even with my f4 and 800 speed
film. I tried pushing 800 film to 1600 last season, which cost $17 to
develop and print 24 exposures, and the resulting photos were AWFUL. I've
had poor results in the past with film faster than 800, so I didn't want to
try that. (This summer, I tried Fuji Superia 1600 with *much* better
results and will give that a try next season.)
I thought that my only remaining options were (a) dark, underexposed photos;
or (b) blurry photos shot at a slower speed. The team's pro photographer
suggested using exposure compensation as a workaround, but he could only
tell me how to do it, not how or why it works. Personally, I prefer the
shots overexposed by 1/2 stop, but most other folks I've showed photos to
prefer the full stop. Here are some shots I took with EC turned up a full
stop:
http://community.webshots.com/album/14723609aDQmRrwWZq
Anyway, the main reason I was asking is because if the end result of turning
up EC one full stop is slowing the shutter speed from 1/250 to 1/125 (which
is apparently what it does), I think I'd rather play around with that
myself. Maybe this will give me the extra incentive to save my pennies to
buy a f2.8! :-)
Pattie
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