 JEEVAN |
which 35mm colour print film for wildlife photo? i need to know which 35mm colour print film to use for shooting wildlife in india.....we have lowlight conditions here sometimes....i use a canon 100-300mm f/4.5-f/5.6 af lens.....please let me know all the possible 35mm colour print fims that can be used.....
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Craig m. Zacarelli |
i have seen some great shots on Velvia or Provia. I dont know too much about it though. Do a google photo search or search yahoo photos... im sure youll see what I mean.. its got really saturated colors and the pics just have a great "pop" Craig-
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Paul Tobeck |
Velvia and Provia are both slide films. If you want prints from them, internegatives will have to made or they would have to be scanned. Either Fuji or Kodak's off the shelf print films will work well. I'd suggest bring both 100 ISO for daytime shots and 400 ISO for low light conditions. If want more natural colors on a pro film base, then you can look at Fuji's Reala or Kodak's Portra.
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Sharon Day |
I would suggest going with a slide film. It's been my experience that slides hold up better through the years than negatives. I can still scan my slides but my negatives are all so degraded they can't really be scanned anymore. Of course you don't really have that problem today since you can have them put on a CD at the time of developing, but I didn't have that option when I primarily shot film. I'm not up to speed on film but used to prefer Fuji film to Kodak for saturated nature colors.
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Brock E. Litton |
I second the idea about using slide film, especially Velvia, thats all I used when I shot film. And you dont have to make internegatives to get prints from slides. Most labs are digital and print with Fujifilm Frontiers or Noritsu Machines that will print directly from a slide
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Jon Close |
While the slide films mentioned are quite good, I think the original poster is still better off with a good ISO 400 print film. He has a relatively long (100-300mm) and slow (f/4-5.6) lens. Getting shutter speeds high enough to counter camera shake and subject movement will be problematic with ISO 100 slide films, even in daylight. Print films also have much wider exposure latitude than slide, giving greater detail in shadow and resistance to blowing out highlights. And even commercial print film like Kodak's High Definition 400 and Fuji's Superia X-TRA 400 have finer grain and nearly the resolving power of professional ISO 100 slide film.
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Andrew Laverghetta |
You could also check out Kodak's 400UC professional film. My local walmart actually stocks this stuff in 36 exposure rolls, in packs of 3. It's really great and can give some pretty saturated colors and the ISO 400 would hopefully be good for this. The problem is that you will need to keep the shutter speed at least higher than 1/100 and if you zoom in all the way, you will need a shutter speed higher than 1/400. If you're talking about low lighting conditions, like in very early morning or in the evening. If you'll be shooting more in the day, ISO 400 should work great. You can also go to a pro photo store and they can get you ISO100 with this type of film (UC means Ultra Color, by the way) It will give sharper photos if you make bigger enlargements and less grain.
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