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I'm about to get out and about with a load of Cinestill 800 in Shanghai.

 

Any tips? :)

Try at the square by the entrance to the north station. I would *love* an afternoon there with a camera as it's easily the busiest and most vibrant place I saw in China. Every walk across was an adventure... Or at least it was 15 years ago when I was last in Shanghai.

 

Black and white's my weapon of choice for daylight, but reading around it seems 800T is not only tungsten balanced which is supposed to make it ideal for night shots under artificial lights, but it's also skin-balanced, so it could be OK for daylight street shots.

 

Maybe at ISO 400?

 

Worst that can happen is that it costs you 36 frames... but the sky won't fall down.

 

Otherwise the Bund as the obvious default... I imagine at night the lights of the skyscrapers across the river would be a good subject for 800T... Plus their reflections on the water? Adam says I should push it a stop at night, so I'm going to try and game the Contax T2 up to ISO 1600 and see what happens.

 

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Try at the square by the entrance to the north station. I would *love* an afternoon there with a camera as it's easily the busiest and most vibrant place I saw in China. Every walk across was an adventure... Or at least it was 15 years ago when I was last in Shanghai.

Black and white's my weapon of choice for daylight, but reading around it seems 800T is not only tungsten balanced which is supposed to make it ideal for night shots under artificial lights, but it's also skin-balanced, so it could be OK for daylight street shots.

Maybe at ISO 400?

Worst that can happen is that it costs you 36 frames... but the sky won't fall down.

Otherwise the Bund as the obvious default... I imagine at night the lights of the skyscrapers across the river would be a good subject for 800T... Plus their reflections on the water? Adam says I should push it a stop at night, so I'm going to try and game the Contax T2 up to ISO 1600 and see what happens.

Ric

Ric - sorry for not being clear, i meant to suggest that you overexpose by about a full stop. So take a meter reading of the artificial light falling on the subject(s) and then OPEN up another stop. I think this is important particulary at night. Brendn Wright has confirmed this to me. It is really only a 500 rated film but happens to have decent latitude. So at night i would definitely rate it at 400-500, not 1600, unless you need the extra speed and then i would rate it at 800 and develop it at 1600...
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Ric - sorry for not being clear, i meant to suggest that you overexpose by about a full stop. So take a meter reading of the artificial light falling on the subject(s) and then OPEN up another stop. I think this is important particulary at night. Brendn Wright has confirmed this to me. It is really only a 500 rated film but happens to have decent latitude. So at night i would definitely rate it at 400-500, not 1600, unless you need the extra speed and then i would rate it at 800 and develop it at 1600...

I read in a cinematographer magazine that cameramen like to shoot cinestill at 800 and develop at 1000 .... FWIW

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Ric - sorry for not being clear, i meant to suggest that you overexpose by about a full stop. So take a meter reading of the artificial light falling on the subject(s) and then OPEN up another stop. I think this is important particulary at night. Brendn Wright has confirmed this to me. It is really only a 500 rated film but happens to have decent latitude. So at night i would definitely rate it at 400-500, not 1600, unless you need the extra speed and then i would rate it at 800 and develop it at 1600..

 

So shooting at 800 and developing at 1600. How do the shots look in terms of grain Adam?

 

Seeing some of your images with Cinestill they've got that smooth glossy pop (pardon the phraseology) to them which I like. Were they shot at 800 ASA and deved at 1600?

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EDIT: Oh wow, I'm sorry I didn't realise how big these were. Feel free to delete if thats too big ;)

 

Some snapshots from a trip to Zandvoort near Amsterdam from a couple years ago that I rescanned to test my new scanner :)

 

More here: http://lifeon35.tumblr.com/

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Mood color and soft lines , very vintage pictures

Thanks for sharing

and you are obviously Welcome  :)

What's  film ?

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During our trip in Algeria and on the road to the Sahara desert , this village built in mud

 

Kodachrome 64

MP-35 LA may be 28 cron

 

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Ric - sorry for not being clear, i meant to suggest that you overexpose by about a full stop. So take a meter reading of the artificial light falling on the subject(s) and then OPEN up another stop. I think this is important particulary at night. Brendn Wright has confirmed this to me. It is really only a 500 rated film but happens to have decent latitude. So at night i would definitely rate it at 400-500, not 1600, unless you need the extra speed and then i would rate it at 800 and develop it at 1600...

 

Oops, so I exposure comp it +1 aiming for around ISO 400 for night shots. Shall see.

 

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So shooting at 800 and developing at 1600. How do the shots look in terms of grain Adam?

 

Seeing some of your images with Cinestill they've got that smooth glossy pop (pardon the phraseology) to them which I like. Were they shot at 800 ASA and deved at 1600?

very kind, thank you.  I most probably developed at box speed (800) but exposed at 400.  In many cases I wish I had given even more exposure....

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very kind, thank you. I most probably developed at box speed (800) but exposed at 400. In many cases I wish I had given even more exposure....

So if exp comp at +1 and hand it to the lab and say nothing, they'll develop it according to the ISO 800 DX coding, right?

 

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Nothing sells a restaurant to me better than having Jumbo in the title ! Skin colours look spot on.

I save mine to jpg from my Plustek 7500 and get very sharp images i sharpen in PS, here's another from last weekends hunt, Earl of Scarborough to the right biggest land owner in Yorkshire

 

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Sometimes Portra looks like Cinestill no ? :)

 

Ballon in the air and in relief

 

KP400-M7-35 Lux A

 

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