noah b
Established
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
Veteran
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
Veteran
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.
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.