At 12:54 4/2/01, Pete wrote:
Hi from a sunny (at last) London. Two questions:
1) A friend has asked me to take some b&w shots of her 6 month old baby -
I havn't done b&w of people for a long time; what filter is best for baby
skin tones?
(I'll be sticking to my fav, ilford FP4+, film)
I'd be tempted to use no filters. Might shoot some with and without . . .
the _only_ filter being a Yellow #6 or #8 (a.k.a. K1 or K2) for very modest
contrast increase and slight shift in tone rendition away from the blue
end. Haven't used the Ilford you mention, but have used a #6 (K1) for
portraits with good results.
2) Was chatting to a wonderbrick owner whose toy has a max shutter of
1/8000. It triggered a memory of a review in a UK photo mag (practical
photography, early 93 I think) of the OM4Ti. The review stated that the
shutter just couldn't make 1/2000, in reality it was 1/1100 ish. Can
anyone confirm this?
I've never experienced any over-exposure issues shooting transparency films
using the 1/2000th shutter speed on my OM-4. If it were 2/3 stop slow
(1/1250th) I would certainly expect to see it in the Kodachromes.
Someone else mentioned a vertical FP shutter and the much faster shutter
speeds to be had with them. A vertical shutter is how Zeiss Ikon was able
to get the Contax shutter up to 1/1250th during the 1930's, a blistering
fast shutter speed and an engineering achievement in its day.
-- John
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