Razr
Leading Member
Back in the days", before "auto" this or "Auto" that, we had "Standard" (manual) settings for this or that type of shots.
You would set f/5.6 @ 1/60th on your camera for most in-studio shots.
Billions of frames of print film were shot with that setting.
( Film Speeds ranged from the Turtilishly slow ISO 6 to the then "blazingly fast" ISO 64 .)
A lot of space and time has recently been devoted to hashing out "The Inverse Square Law".
( Back in the days before Vivitar released their 283 "Thyristor" flashes, the inverse square law ( a simple division problem) had a fixed quotient (10 feet).
What with "modern" ( Read: never shot film or non-auto flash systems ) photographers, those who never learned full manual flash shooting,
As technology advanced and film speeds increased, cameras became more sophisticated and KODAK's PJM (Photojournalist- Multi-speed ) took over the film speed race, shooting at ISO 400 to 640 to ISO 800, without having to change your camera's film speed indicator, its "Multi-speed" (later renamed " Ektapress " Multispeed) aspect certainly cutting down on a photographer's need to purchase and shoot different can speeds.
What also occurred during those days ( more automation in cameras ) was print film shooters (all there was) were conspicuous with their constant reminders of how print film had/has at least two stops of shooting and development latitude, while most transparencies (slides) (with a sort of pre-digital angst) had fewer than two stops, print film soon enough going on to ISO 800 (where most film plateau(d) speed-wise.
( Though some B&W print films had often been and some still are "pushed" to ISO 25,600! )
Today, what with tens of millions of people who have had access to digital imaging only and have foolishly eschewed shooting film (as I still do), buying now underpowered, sub-pixeled DSLRS while passing on inexpensinve Nikon F5 film bodies.
It seems they do not know older Nikon film SLRs will drive the newest VR/IS lenses with no sweat/.
Or those old Canon EOS3 "ubercameras" w/boosters can be bought for under $500!
Me?
I've started stocking up on old film uber-cameras.
What's not to like with an 8fps film body that exposes film to perfection and to a finer degree most digital cameras, including most of those really sorry "entry-level" DSLRs have to envy?
You would set f/5.6 @ 1/60th on your camera for most in-studio shots.
Billions of frames of print film were shot with that setting.
( Film Speeds ranged from the Turtilishly slow ISO 6 to the then "blazingly fast" ISO 64 .)
A lot of space and time has recently been devoted to hashing out "The Inverse Square Law".
( Back in the days before Vivitar released their 283 "Thyristor" flashes, the inverse square law ( a simple division problem) had a fixed quotient (10 feet).
What with "modern" ( Read: never shot film or non-auto flash systems ) photographers, those who never learned full manual flash shooting,
As technology advanced and film speeds increased, cameras became more sophisticated and KODAK's PJM (Photojournalist- Multi-speed ) took over the film speed race, shooting at ISO 400 to 640 to ISO 800, without having to change your camera's film speed indicator, its "Multi-speed" (later renamed " Ektapress " Multispeed) aspect certainly cutting down on a photographer's need to purchase and shoot different can speeds.
What also occurred during those days ( more automation in cameras ) was print film shooters (all there was) were conspicuous with their constant reminders of how print film had/has at least two stops of shooting and development latitude, while most transparencies (slides) (with a sort of pre-digital angst) had fewer than two stops, print film soon enough going on to ISO 800 (where most film plateau(d) speed-wise.
( Though some B&W print films had often been and some still are "pushed" to ISO 25,600! )
Today, what with tens of millions of people who have had access to digital imaging only and have foolishly eschewed shooting film (as I still do), buying now underpowered, sub-pixeled DSLRS while passing on inexpensinve Nikon F5 film bodies.
It seems they do not know older Nikon film SLRs will drive the newest VR/IS lenses with no sweat/.
Or those old Canon EOS3 "ubercameras" w/boosters can be bought for under $500!
Me?
I've started stocking up on old film uber-cameras.
What's not to like with an 8fps film body that exposes film to perfection and to a finer degree most digital cameras, including most of those really sorry "entry-level" DSLRs have to envy?
