[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hey guys... > >Does anyone else shoot this film? I love it. I've read the NC has better skin tones >but I'm not sure... > I just shot a whole lot of NC, all with my MZ-S and AF360 flash. I was amazed at how well the combination worked in a wide variety of lighting. First the MZ-S and AF360 with the pre flash gave me superb exposures. In subdued lighting of a restaurant, faces and light tones were not blown out as is sometimes the case when the TTL exposure averages the frame. The matrix metering of the pre flash worked 100% of the time. Most impressive were the photos taken on stage of Nutcracker dancers after the curtain came down. The full stage lighting was still on and again the metering mixed these superbly and the Portra 160 NC was sharp and perfect skin tones, albeit with some stage lighting providing some highlights. I had many compliments on the "great colour" and even some shots of the dancers in the hall behind the stage, under neon, were great. No green!!
For landscape and flowers, etc. I would use the VC except that I always shoot that with Velvia or E100 extra colour. I think if I owned a scanner I may switch to the Portra VC because of the wider exposure latitude and I would prefer the vivid colour for those subjects. Cheers, Mike. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
