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KW> speed and fstop you used. Ballet can be a difficult subject for
KW> photography, I rate it alongside "Rock'n'Roll" photography for
KW> degree of difficulty.
If I remember some of the amateur venues and clubs I shot in, the
lighting man must have been drunk. Punks don't need light, maybe, but
my trusty 1.4/50 with 3200 pushed HP5+ was giving me about 1/8-1/15
readings...
Back to colour film - a friend who photographs R&R concerts much more
than me uses Fuji Press 800, pushed to 1600 (IIRC, some older thread
here, the Fuji press 800 is _same_ as Fuji superia 800). I shoot
mostly B&W concerts, though, but in colour, I use Kodak Supra 800
pushed to 1600 (I have faster lenses though <G>). When we last talked
about it, he said that in his opinion the Fuji gives better shadow
detail but more saturated colours (sometimes not wanted in concerts,
where colour spotlights are saturated well enough to start with), over
the Supra 800. So consider these two films pushed 1 stop (I know, I
know, Bill, pushing a colour film is oxymoron, I have seen the lab
results and graphs, there is NO increase in speed in the Supra 800 nor
Superia 800 when pushing them, they are just easier to print at 1600
than at 800 underexposed).
HTH,
Frantisek
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