Night photos when you travel. What do you do?

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fixbones

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Hey ppl,

To those seasoned and unseasoned travellers... what do you do when night falls?

- Do you have a separate camera loaded with high ISOs... 1600 and up....
- Do you just go with ISO 400 and f1.4 and hope for the best.
- Do you not bother with night shots.

What do you do?
 
Use my Lx5 with built-in stabilization, put the camera on something steady, iso 800 and let the timer set it off. When I had film, i used the fastest lens I had, the fastest film i had and tried to find anything to support the camera.
 
I use a small table top tripod and a self timer mostly. Olympus XA is a great camera for that.
 
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Fast lens. You don't even need ISO 400. Nor do you need to hope for the best. Lots of great night pics were taken with f/2 and slower lenses on 400ASA and below.

Admittedly it depends on what sort of pics you are talking about. Landscapes? Portraits? Street concerts?

Cheers,

R.
 
I like to keeps things simple and use 400 asa film, an f2 lens, and the in-camera meter hand held for night photos.
The M body works very well for the night and I get into a rhythm by taking deep breaths, standing firm and holding the camera steady.
I have a couple of sets of night work on flickr.
 
D3S and be there.
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Separate camera with high ISO film (I usually travel with two bodies, second one always holding different film and/or lens).
or
Push.
 
400 tri-x or delta pro and f/1.4 or f/2 lens.

If you are under street lamps, you can usually use 1/30 or 1/60, so no need for stabilization. I can usually go down to 1/15 (sometimes 1/8) when needed, if I am careful.

Best of luck,

Randy
 
Very encouraging so far.
I usually carry 2 bodies with 400TX. One for 28mm and one for 50mm. Was having thoughts regarding bringing a 3rd body just for ISO 1600..... which seems a bit too much for me. So thought i'd come to this forum for support and advice.
 
I bring a Noctilux and load the camera with Tri-X, so far it worked quite reasonable. :)
 
Hey fixbones,
I find the Leica table top tripod significantly increases the likelihood of useful supports in the field -- it transforms all sorts of irregular shapes into adequate support, allows easy use of vertical walls as steadiers, etc. and does not take up much space, though it is significantly heavier than digicam tabletop tripods. I have not found those as easy to use effectively because of the lower friction on their ball.
Giorgio
 
I usually carry TX 400, and if I go out at night, then I push it to 800 or 1600. No problems with a 1.5 or 2.0 lens.
The only problem is if you have a half-roll you need to get out of the camera.
 
I go w/option 1, w/the separate body usually being digital nowadays (used to be mostly Neopan 1600, Pro 800Z, or Superia 1600). For me, 1 of the main reasons for shooting digital is its superiority to film for low light color.

fixbones said:
Hey ppl,

To those seasoned and unseasoned travellers... what do you do when night falls?

- Do you have a separate camera loaded with high ISOs... 1600 and up....
- Do you just go with ISO 400 and f1.4 and hope for the best.
- Do you not bother with night shots.

What do you do?
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