Steve, I used to shoot for First Methodist in Fort Worth (huge congregation,
you'd think we were Baptists!). Truth of the matter, most of the work
wasn't very demanding of film. I shot a lot of Tri-X and processed it
myself because the church paper only published black & white. The color
stuff was seldom more than 4x6 prints. On rare occasions that it was, such
as group portraits or the choir's Christmas album cover (remember LPs?), I
shot 4x5. Still, for most of the work, I'm of the opinion that any
name-brand 400 negative film will be adequate. I think that the bigger
problem is finding a lab that will provide quick, consistant high quality
prints, at church prices.
Good luck. It was fun and enlightening work.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Steve Goss <steveg3@xxxxxxxxx>
To: olympus-digest <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 6:45 PM
Subject: [OM] What film should I use?
> I know, this question keeps getting rehashed occasionally, but I'm just
> starting on a career as a volunteer photographer for my church, and just
want
> to get some reassurance before I stock up on film.
> I'll mostly be shooting people, mostly candids, or informal. I'd like to
do
> some of it without a flash. (*see note below) The main contenders at this
> point are Kodak Royal Gold 400 asa, or Fuji NPH (also 400asa). I'm
leaning
> towards Kodak because of the nice comments it has received here, but the
Fuji
> is a strong contender, mainly because of its significantly lower price.
I'm
> pretty sure that both films will do the job, but I'm wondering if Royal
Gold is
> really that much better than NPH.
> Of course, all the cameras will be Olympus.
> Your thoughts, as always, will be enlightening.
> Steve Goss, Dallas Texas, usa.
> You can check out the church at:
> <a href="http://www.reinhardt.org/welcome.html";>
> http://www.reinhardt.org/helcome.html</a>
>
> * The shutter makes enough of a disturbance, without adding the pop of a
> flash. I remember using Tri-X indoors in high school with an old range
finder
> camera. With my much faster lenses on an OM, it should be even easier.
Of
> course, I didn't have to worry about color casts with black and white.
The
> newsletter editor has photoshop, though, so we can probably tweak the
colors
> back.
>
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