Shooting a wedding using Holga and Ilford 3200 -- what to expect?

[AnselMortensen]

Still waiting to hear from OP.

 

[gbroadbridge]

Still waiting to hear from OP.

It's been like almost 2 years, right?

 

[Felix Reed]

Hi y'all --

My friend is getting married next week and I wanted to shoot a roll or three. The wedding reception is going to be at a barn outside, but will probably have similar lighting to, say, a dark street at night with street lights, or a dimly lit restaurant. I have some rolls of 120 Ilford 3200 sitting around and I thought it would be fun to try to shoot them at the wedding, but my understanding of this film is very minimal and I haven't shot it before. Note that I am not the actual wedding photographer, so this is pretty low stakes, but it would be cool to get some nice images out of it. Is there, for example, a precise EV amount that I can look for given that I have to shoot at f8 or f11 and 1/100? Doing some calculations using a sunny 16 calculator, it looks like I should be good for 9-11 EV, does this seem right? Is this even relevant?

From what I have read, I should:

Meter using ISO 1000
Set the aperture I want (Holga only has two, and I'll probably use f8)
Use whatever speed the meter tells me to (has to be 1/100)
Develop "normally", i.e. just drop it off at the lab and don't request anything special.

Because the Holga has very limited control over shutter speed especially, my plan was to just sort of wing it. But can anyone give me any recommendations for what may or may not work? Is this a total fool's errand? I have 3 rolls of this film and am not very precious about "wasting" film, so may shoot all 3 if I am confident enough. Don't have enough time to run any tests, sadly.

Thanks!

Those settings are a recipe for underexposure. Good idea to bring an SLR with Portra 800 as backup. You can try the Holga, but don't expect it to be perfect.

 

[acrobatic_citron]

Well my own experiment went ok... Lomo 92 film with the new Godox im30 manual flash made for a very light set up and was conscious to not get in the way of the wedding photographer. I went off the guide number and trusted the aperture of the holga and all came back underexposed even in where the flash has hit. So time to measure the godox actual power with a meter. Happy with this shot though and the couple were too. Next time I'll use the sb-800 with its built in lightmeter to do all the hard work for me

 

[pentaxuser]

It's been like almost 2 years, right?

You may have already discovered this but it looks as if an answer may be a long time coming given that he was last seen on Nov 2024. That's not to say he will never come back but 6 months absence does not bode well for a return or not for a return where his wedding experience may even be something that is on his mind at the point of return

pentaxuser