"Eduardo Carone Costa Jr." wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> I just bought my first roll of Ilford Delta 3200 B&W film and would
> appreciate any information you could give me about the best way to use it. I
> would like to get some night shots, probably at a show or a bar; something
> grainy and moody. should I use it at its nominal rated speed or try to push
> it?
3200 seems plenty grainy to me. That's the number on the box, so why not
give it a shot? See what it does at that EI, and if you want to
experiment some more you'll at least have a base to start from.
Personally, when I shoot it in 120, I shoot it at 1250.
> What can you tell me about the use of fill flash or a typical B&W
> filter, like the Y1, under such conditions?
One caution about fill-flash in low-light...if you're not getting enough
ambient light for a proper exposure, and you set your flash to give less
then proper exposure, guess what? You won't get a proper exposure. Fill
flash means you're using flash to fill in shadows...you're not adding a
little flash to a little ambient light in the hopes of them adding up to
a decent exposure. You just underexpose.
If it's dark, and you decide to use flash, do this: pick the lowest
shutter speed you can handhold, or maybe one stop below. Then set the
aperture as wide as you can. The stop you set the aperture at will be
determined by how well you can see to focus - if you can barely see,
you'll probably want to stop down a bit to cover focusing errors. If you
have ttl, fire away...if not, set it to match your aperture and subject
distance.
The key to this is getting the longest shutter speed and largest
aperture you can get away with...this will give you more ambient light,
illuminating te background and eliminating the 'dark tunnel' look.
If you're shooting in marginal light, a filter is only a hindrance, imo.
It'll just suck up more light.
Bear in mind that if you're using ttl flash, Pentax cameras/flashes
can't go up to 3200. I believe the PZ-1p says it can only handle ttl
flash up to 800.
> I'll probably use a KM with a K 50/1.2 or, if you tell me to push it to a
> higher ISO, a MZ-M. I'm not considering autofocus because I don't think it
> will work for this kind of photo.
AF will work if you've got AF-assist.
Good luck.
tv
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