Shooting A Night Parade

Hubigpielover · Feb 10, 2017

Hey, I've got some Cinestill 800t and want to shoot a night parade tomorrow. I've got my new trusty Luna SBC.

1) I've heard that I should shoot Cinestill @ 800 but push it 2 stops in developing. Is this best practice?

2) Do I need to take a reading on my light meter every shot? I don't think I can get the floats to stop but I am willing to try.

As always thanks for the help.

rpavich · Feb 13, 2017

Hubigpielover said:
Hey, I've got some Cinestill 800t and want to shoot a night parade tomorrow. I've got my new trusty Luna SBC.

1) I've heard that I should shoot Cinestill @ 800 but push it 2 stops in developing. Is this best practice?

2) Do I need to take a reading on my light meter every shot? I don't think I can get the floats to stop but I am willing to try.

As always thanks for the help.

How did this come out?
For what it's worth, I'd shoot Cinestill at 800 and developing at recommended time is fine.
I would most certainly NOT take meter readings ever shot, I'd just set it and forget it. Your camera's meter will make some really bad decisions based on the bright lights and the dark pockets around the parade. Your incident meter will be better but I wouldn't waste time doing that.

Post a few pictures so that we can see how you did.

Hubigpielover · Feb 13, 2017

Hopefully everything came out well. I will post some pictures once I get then sent off and back.

thuggins · Feb 14, 2017

It's print film, you shouldn't need to use a meter at all. With ASA 800 film a fully open aperture and a shutter speed of 1/30 to 1/60 would have been fine in your circumstance. You could have pushed the film to 1600 and closed the aperture down to get a better Depth of Field. Even if it was two (or more) stops off either way, it would have come out fine.

My experience in shooting dark, dimly lit interiors (with slide film) is that ASA 400 pushes the limit of fast, wide lenses. f2 or f2.8, shutter speeds of 1/15 to 1/30, going down to 1/8 in really dark areas. I recently had my Pen FT with me, loaded with some Kodak VS (ASA 100) when I found myself wanting to take some shots in a pretty dim interior. Since the meter wouldn't work in such dim light anyway, I just worked off the numbers shown above. Since the lens only opened to f3.5 I took two stops for the aperture and two stops for the film speed. This gave a shutter speed of 1/2 to 1 second. I braced the camera as best as I could and ended up with some nice, well exposed slides.

Hubigpielover · Feb 17, 2017

thuggins said:
It's print film, you shouldn't need to use a meter at all. With ASA 800 film a fully open aperture and a shutter speed of 1/30 to 1/60 would have been fine in your circumstance. You could have pushed the film to 1600 and closed the aperture down to get a better Depth of Field. Even if it was two (or more) stops off either way, it would have come out fine.

My experience in shooting dark, dimly lit interiors (with slide film) is that ASA 400 pushes the limit of fast, wide lenses. f2 or f2.8, shutter speeds of 1/15 to 1/30, going down to 1/8 in really dark areas. I recently had my Pen FT with me, loaded with some Kodak VS (ASA 100) when I found myself wanting to take some shots in a pretty dim interior. Since the meter wouldn't work in such dim light anyway, I just worked off the numbers shown above. Since the lens only opened to f3.5 I took two stops for the aperture and two stops for the film speed. This gave a shutter speed of 1/2 to 1 second. I braced the camera as best as I could and ended up with some nice, well exposed slides.

Thanks for the good info. I will try it next time and see what kind of photos I get. My lenses is a 50mm f1.4.

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