which film M for pro-use?

[ynp]

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Wonderful images. Thank you for sharing. 

[sblitz]

Try Tmax 3200P, it is fabulous. It is actually 800 film designed to be pushed to 3200. I have only shot it at 3200 indoors and the results are great, shooting a roll now at 800 just to see.

 

[frogfish]

vor 55 Minuten schrieb sblitz:

Try Tmax 3200P, it is fabulous. It is actually 800 film designed to be pushed to 3200. I have only shot it at 3200 indoors and the results are great, shooting a roll now at 800 just to see.

 

its expensive. Tmax costs about 8€ a roll, the Ilford I get for 5€, for 4€ if I load it be myself.

 

heiko

[tobey bilek]

For pro use, you need ( must have ) reliable cameras.   I love my F2 nikons and M6 all of which are very good condition.  M6 was purchased new and has had less than 25 rolls thru it.  Nikons are used and no history is there, only condition.   

When my friend had his wedding business,  he checked every camera before the event.  He had dozens of Leicas, 5+ shooters for different weddings,  and the cameras were sold and new purchased annually.   He repaired all the strobes himself.  Sunday night was film developing night.  150 rolls in 8 reel tanks. There was a formula for a wedding and he shot 6 rolls.  All his trained shooters did the same.  

My advice is one digital M for color.  A second recently serviced and checked for back up.  Carry some color film to back up the digital or have two.

Almost all older M are well used wedding cameras or insanely expensive.  I would stay away from them.  

[fsprow]

I do some weddings and use a Hasselblad H6D-100c in the main.  However, I also carry a much used and totally reliable M4 for fun candid shots -- it always draws attention, particularly during a fast film change.  I only use it for B&W.

Enjoy!!

 

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On 10/15/2018 at 7:37 AM, frogfish said:

you do not shoot weddings, right? (0:

 

I know, right? I'm not a pro wedding shooter, but I've worked an event or two over the years, and I know that my keeper rate is about 10-12% if I'm being generous. On one wedding, I took about 1100 images (a fair few bracketed for focus and subject reaction) and my ultimate output was about 105. And this was for friends who had already employed a wedding shooter. The paid shooter gave them 4000 images to sort through! Documenting an entire wedding with 72 exposures and no do-overs seems a little ambitious, especially given the expectations of today's clients.

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On 10/19/2018 at 12:55 AM, harmen said:

Building on that thought as well as the person who spoke about having a record 50 years later... you could take a full set of clinical expressionless portraits of all guests as an artful addition to your services.  A Düsseldorf School approach as it were.

Or a close up, flash driven, fill-the-frame-with-face Bruce Gilden approach. Imagine a wedding album looking like a series of Gilden mug shots...