 Brandon Currey |
Film with good color I want to shoot some macro shots of some fruits. What brand of film will produce the brightest colors? I was thinking Kodak film would be better than Fuji, but I'm not certain. I'd prefer not to use slide film. I'd like to get a 100 speed film so that the pics can be blown up to an 8x10 if needed. Thanks for your help.
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Justin G. |
For print film, Kodak's UltraColor 100 & 400 are the highest saturation probably for print film. The one time I used it I didn't really like it but it did well. I also didn't know at the time that if you pull print film that will give you higher color saturation so if you get the 100 shoot it at 80 or 50. For slide film the best film out there is Fuji Velvia. You'll hear people rave over this. This is probably THE MOST popular film for bright bold colors. You're exposure has to be dead on though but if you bracket you should be fine. Good luck!
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Brandon Currey |
What does shooting at 80 or 50 with 100 speed film do? I know that having the camera overide the film to higher speed increases the grain. Does this just do the opposite and produce less grain?
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Justin G. |
No not really but with print film (kind of hard to explain the process) but kinda in a way "burns the image in" and slide "burns the image out". So basically when you overexpose print film (just a little, not a ton) you'll give it a little more saturation. So when you "pull" you're film back you're tellign the camera that its speed 80 or speed 50 and it will meter according to that. Well this in turn will give you longer shutter speeds, thus overexposing and in this case, giving a little more saturation. Hope this helps.
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Jon Close |
Re - rating ISO 100 print film at 80 (+ 1/3 stop exposure compensation), 64 (+2/3) or 50 (+1): Color print film reacts to + exposure compensation with greater saturation and contrast. Do not ask for "pull processing," just have it developed normally. Agfa also makes a high-saturation print film (ULTRA 100) that they advertise as "the brightest color film in the world."
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Justin G. |
How could I forget the Agfa. Good film. Man I completely forgot about them. Thanks Jon.
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