Lets see some low light Pics

1/15th second, 1,200 ASA Tri-x (Diafine, of course) and wide open with the Noctilux...
Portugal. Good coffee, good friends. Just go.
 
Here's a GSN shot from 2004. Cellist Matt Herron at the Old West Church in Calais, Vt.

I was a little cock-eyed on the horizon, but decided to leave it that way. Seems to be a problem I have with rangefinders, keeping level.
 
Night accident

Night accident

This was shot at an accent in 1979. Won third place in the state press association annual competition.

Tri -X. Unfortunately it wasn't shot with an RF -- Mamiya M645.
 
The day after I bought my Yashica GX I was passing with friends this interesting shop with old things, curiosa, almost antique with a lot of light in it. Just in a hurry I placed the camera on something solid and took this picture. 400 ASA, aperture f4 or f5.6, exposure about half a second to one second I think.
 
Low light shots

Low light shots

Since a while I shoot more and more at night, it is a new and exciting experience.
If you like colour shots too you will find some more in my 2005 Paris album..

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showgallery.php?ppuser=1018&cat=500

..and in the Strolling album:
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=8895&cat=3949&page=1

Some B&W low lights are in my old album which I could not migrate :
http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=247&cat=3234&page=4

Best,
Bertram
 
This construction was going on directly in front of my local newspaper for 3 nights before they had anything in the paper about it!
Not a Yashica, sorry, handheld Canonet, 400 speed film with the camera set at IIRC f1.7 and 1/15th sec.
In my gallery HERE
Rob
 
Brian Sweeney said:
Okay,
Here is one from an Under-Rated Nikon lens, the 55mm F1.2. This multi-coated AI-Series lens has the fastest "T-Stop" (transmitted light) of anything Nikon ever made. The Nikkor 5cm F1.1 was a 9 element beast, single coated, compared to this lens. Over the center 2/3ds of the image, it is sharper than the 50mm F1.4 AI series lens. It is soft at the edges used wide-open, but not too bad.

Nikon F2AS, 400ASA, F1.2 and 1/60th. Focus on the profile.
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That's a beautiful shot, Brian. Where it is soft is just perfect...nicely done but of course we need to credit your model, too :).
 
The 55/1.2 was the other lens I was trying to decide whether or not to buy when I first got my FE. I ended up going with the 50/1.4 AI due to so many people saying what a wonderful lens it is. I may relook at getting the 55.
 
This is Oskar lounging in the afternoon sun. Electro GSN wide open, film was fast and grainy ....3200, Kodak? <---Lost the box and don't remember what it was for sure.

I like this thread.
 
First post here...

I know most people are using b&w for available darkness...personally I like the results i get from neopan 1600...but I was wondering what people like for color in low light? I love the way Portra 800 looks when shot at 800 but like it a lot less when it is pushed. I am struggling to find something i like in a low-light color film ...perhaps I am wasting my time?

Could you fine folks perhaps post some low-light color shots that you are especially proud of and note the film/speed/etc used? I have a Lynx 14 coming my way and want to get ready to see what it can do.
 
added lens, film, etc. info

added lens, film, etc. info

about time ... here's my first shot uploaded from the Rapid Omega 200 with Hexanon 90/3.5. It was about 8 p.m., fairly dark outside already, but lit by fluorescents inside. Shot either at f/4 or f/5.6, 1/15th (handheld, a big coup for me in itself) on Tri-X 400 and developed in D-76 1:1.

I might try to redo this shot. It's from my second roll with the RO, developed at home, and I've somehow got some water-spot funkiness going on in the top right and lower left (but I think it's in the neg, not on it), not to mention the butchered scratches from struggling with the reel in the changing bag. Besides that and the crooked floor, I'm pretty pleased, but that's not hard at this stage. :p
 
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Hi Guy, and welcome here!

"Low light" colour film would not be a problem, only that it is almost always tungsten light, meany\ing strong orange cast over the colour negative. Can be corrected somewhat in the printing stage, but far from getting back the original colours. Of course, you might ask what are the 'original colours' in this case...colour, after all, is made up by the incident light and the reflecting material, so a blue thing in orange light is not blue, so why should it be blue on the photo...
And, sometimes the colour casts works great just to give the cvorrect atmosphere to the photo.
Anyway, i can't find any colour low light shots of mine that i've shot with a rf, but here's one with a slr+24mm. On NPH400 rated 320.
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2361531

Here's another one, also slr, 50mm and NPH400 @ E.I.320:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2376177

and here's one on fuji reala i think:
http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=1420763
 
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