Indoors asa question

[noah b]

Hello everyone, I have a quick question. I've been shooting indoors with bounce flash 400 ISO film. I've got a bulk roll of 100 ISO in the freezer and was wondering if it'd work out indoors with bounce? I've got a vivitar 285 and use manual flash most of the time.

 

[bmattock]

Hello everyone, I have a quick question. I've been shooting indoors with bounce flash 400 ISO film. I've got a bulk roll of 100 ISO in the freezer and was wondering if it'd work out indoors with bounce? I've got a vivitar 285 and use manual flash most of the time.

Yes. 100 speed film is 2 stops slower than 400 speed film, but you can shoot it indoors, outdoors, or anywhere you have enough light or long enough exposure time.

 

[charjohncarter]

Sure, bmattock is correct. If you ever have had to shoot multiple times in a room with a high ceiling, dark ceiling, or irregular ceiling (bad bounce), and you don't want just a dark background you can set your camera for ambient light and be sure the aperture is set to the auto f stop reading. You will get full scene exposure. Slow speed film allows you to use a shutter speed that is in the flash friendly range. The same goes for outside fill flash (with a few changes). Sometimes fast film leaves you with a shutter speed that is above the flash threshold (on focal plane shutters). For 35mm I got this tip from Benno and use my Olympus 35RC which is flash synced to 1/500.

Here is a great tutorial by I think someone on this forum on flash use:

http://www.dantestella.com/technical/fill.html

I found flash hard with a manual RF camera at first but if you learn bounce, auto setting indoors, fill flash and full flash outdoors it eventually does become easy.