Provia 100F for colour work, Acros 100 for B&W, both from Fuji. These two films have by far the best reciprocity characteristics available, with no corrections required out to 120 seconds of exposure. Downside is neither is cheap, especially the Provia.
-Adam On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > I've been kicking around the idea of using film for night landscape work. > Not only do you not have trouble with sensor noise on long exposures, but my > 20/1.8 works out to what would be a 13mm on APS, and would therefore be my > widest FOV. > > What film do people recommend for doing night landscape work? > > Alternatively, is there a good/easy/cheap way to stack a bunch of (for > example 10 second) exposures to get a much longer exposure with less noise > and short star trails? It would be preferable for me to do this in > lightroom, but I also have photoshop. > > In a related note, on Saturday night, driving down the coast, I noticed that > it was a beautiful, clear, moonless night so I took a set of test exposures > with the Rollei (0.5, 1, 2 and 4 minutes). When I took them in to get > processed and scanned, I was told that Bay would scan at 16 bits on request. > > It'll be interesting to compare them with the test exposures I took with the > K20. > > lrc > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
