My experiences exactly, though the fastest film I had at an aquarium was
800. It is much dimmer in aquariums than most people realize.
If I were shooting film and scanning (or processing a scanned image) I'd
take care of color correction post-exposure as opposed to filtration. Using
a faster lens of course would be better, but then there's DOF issues with
moving subjects.
My experience is that aquarium shots are pretty hit & miss. I'd guess that
all those nice underwater shots seen on nature programs are accomplished
with fairly hefty floodlights of some kind (or it's bright sun in relatively
shallow water)
Tom C.
From: Bruce Dayton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
To: pentax-discuss@pdml.net
Subject: PESO - Bat Ray
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:32:12 -0800
Since we have continued talking about the aquarium, I thought I would
post another that will illustrate a bit of the difficulty in shooting
here.
If you look at the shooting data, you can see how dim it is in here.
I think the subject movement works here, but it is quite a slow
shutter speed - a tripod won't make much difference. I think film
would be worse here as you also have a color correction issue that
will cost you a some more light in filtration.
Pentax *istD, DA 16-45/4, Handheld, manual focus, manual metering,
ISO 3200, 1/10 sec @ f/4.0, 45mm focal length
http://www.daytonphoto.com/PAW/bkd_2943.htm
Comments welcome
--
Bruce
