Dave Busse wrote: >Does anyone have any experiences, advice, etc., on crummy weather film?
>What about the higher-speed Fuji slide films? We tried a little Provia 400 in Arizona in 1995 and while the colors looked great, the grain looked like a sandstorm. (Trips are no time to play with unfamiliar films; the memories of the events are preserved, but I dread viewing them). I'll stick with the proven Provia one stop push to 200 ISO when I feel the need for speed. I know of several of us that regularly push the newer E-6 films one stop and are happy with the results. I used to like PKL200 when I used to shoot Kodachrome. Now in comparison next to the pushed Provia though, I think it looks flat and dead. Since I'm not a photojournalist or documenting motive power for the news aspect rather than the hobby aspect of it, I feel that right now I have enough crummy lighting shots for a while. Storm lighting is a different story, but we can't plan for that. I don't mind some soft bright overcast lighting, some odd or interesting lighting, a little (realistically applied) fill flash, a nice sunset or night time exposures, but the dead flat thick gray dark soup (lack of) light where the headlight is so bright that it looks like an overexposed night shot, I am no longer interested in. I no longer feel that I have to shoot trains at any given time regardless of the light conditions. Two stops and it's time to start thinking about hanging it up unless someone is paying me. Fun is a concept best interpreted individually. All opinions are my own. Your mileage may vary on the highway... Dave Cohen Photographer [EMAIL PROTECTED] --> SPORRS: Serious Photographers of Railroad Related Subjects X-Mozilla-Status: 0011 Content-Length: 2165
