>> > In bright sunlight the high shutter speeds can be wonderful assets. I >> > have >> > speeds up to 1/8000 in pentax and even a 1/12000 in a minolta body. >> > If you >> > want to blur your background in a portrait type image in bright >> > sunlight >> > you'll need the fast speeds to run f2 range aperatures. >> > >> Very fast shutter speeds can be used for such purposes, but they're far >> from the only way. Slower films (at ISO 100, correct exposure at f/2 >> is 1/2000 in direct sun... even ZX-M can do that) and ND filters are >> two others that come to mind.
On a shoot, I usually use 400-800 film, overall day. The fast shutter is definite plus here, when I want to use 2.8 or 3.5 aperture with 70-210 lens to blur background, or even faster with f/2 wideangle prime. That's why a Hexar RF appeals to me (although offtopic) - Leica and similar lenses are very nice near wide open, but you can't use them with any Leica... (whose 1/1000 is mostly 1/750 and 1/1000 only in the electronic M7). Especially in sunlight, shooting M6 at fastest 1/1000 even with 100 iso film would give you f/5.6, which is nowhere near wide open. And now imagine it with general use 400 film... But I digress. This all depends of course on what you shoot, your style, etc. Frantisek
