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LarryM

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This is my first post as a new member. Please have a look at the two attached pictures. Both were taken on Fuji 200 consumer film with my (Outstanding!) Leica CM. FL9 was taken outdoors in April of last year and shows all the crisp clarity that I expect. FL2 was taken indoors in our living room. Why is the second picture so grainy? Most of the roll is like that. Both were processed at the same location, though 10 months apart. What am I doing wrong? For the grainy photo, redeye reduction was on, battery indicator shows full.

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Hi Larry

 

Welcome to the forum.

 

Looking at the second one, I'm guessing it was underexposed. Did you have any flash compensation dialled in? Maybe 1 stop under, something like that. Certainly the shot you've posted looks to be at a reasonable distance - if the flash was operating on full power I would expect it to be ok. Or could you have had a finger covering the flash unit?

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Hi Larry , looking at this I must say this is the worst result I have seen

Fuji 200 and even the 400 are almost grainfree. So there could two problems underexposed yes you may have set the aperture too low for the flash power but then it could be poor processing as well.

We have the CM with 400 enlarged you will see just a small grain pattern nothing like this.I hate flash photography but it is unavoidable at times.

Manfred

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Hello and thanks for the welcome and the answers. No compensation - the camera was set for auto with the flash set at auto with red eye reduction. The battery was fresh. I'm thinking the "finger over the flash" might be the case. I will try some experiments this weekend and be very careful how I hold the camera. Is there any tests that I can do to check the flash output? Our living room has white walls and ceiling - could that be influencing the exposure meter?

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