How many pictures can I take on film?
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ZazaCast
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Film usually comes in 12, 24 and 36 exposures per rolls.
Occasionally you can get more, e.g. once I got 26 shots out of a 24-shot roll, since film manufacturers will usually include about 3 extra frames worth of film in a roll to compensate for the fact that most cameras will load and wind differently.
Occasionally you can get more, e.g. once I got 26 shots out of a 24-shot roll, since film manufacturers will usually include about 3 extra frames worth of film in a roll to compensate for the fact that most cameras will load and wind differently.
Mj882
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Oh right, so the exposure refers to the amount of pictures you can take. My one stopped at 36, so I'm assuming it's a 36 exp.
I was also wondering what film people would recommend for both colour and black and white. I want to try 3200 ISO film to obtain the grainy look, but don't want it overly grainy and to be able to maintain good quality pictures.
Any advice?
3200 is ridiculously grainy, but you'll have to experiment to see what you like. It also depends how much you're blowing it up. Obviously a contact print is going to look clearer than a 100' poster. I generally use the Ilford 'Delta' series in 100 and 400 ISO. The Delta 3200 is actually ISO 1000, but is intended to be pushed at 3200 by their marketing team. Kodak has a similar one. Those should work to be decently grainy if you process them as ISO1000 instead of 3200. Or push it at 1600.
Mj882
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Hmm I might try the Ilford Delta 400 actually. So when I'm having my film processed, I should tell them the ISO I want?
Also, if I've got the Delta 400, and it's in a low light condition. Assuming I set my cameras ISO to 1600, would that be okay? Or would I need a film cartidge with 1600 ISO?
Also, if I've got the Delta 400, and it's in a low light condition. Assuming I set my cameras ISO to 1600, would that be okay? Or would I need a film cartidge with 1600 ISO?
To set a different ISO than the film is rated at means to either push or pull. When you do this, you make the image a bit lower quality. You can add grain, lose contrast, and eventually you can't even do it. Going that many stops- 400 to 1600- is not advisable. It would probably result in a washed out, grainy, impossible to see image. You can move it to maybe 800 without a major issue, but that's about it, and even that is a very bad idea. I've only ever developed my own film, and stopped shooting on it once I couldn't, so I don't know how to communicate with other developers. You'd have to ask them. The only one that it should be an issue with is the Delta 3200 if you run it differently, since the label is different than reality. If you're going 400, try to always rate it at 400.
PerroneFord
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The ISO you tell the lab is the ISO you SHOT at. If you load ISO 400 film in the camera, and you expose it as ISO 800, then you need to tell them it was exposed at ISO 800. Don't expect this to be done right at the Wal-Mart. You need to take it to a competent shop who can do this custom work.
If you load up ISO 400 and expose at 1600, you're going to get a lot of grain. That's a long way to push film. We used to do it when we had to (shooting football under the lights back in the 80s) but we had special techniques for this. Very few labs are going to custom develop like we did to get best results.
If you can get 1600 speed film, that is the preferable way to go.