dmr
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Following my recent successful trials of the Walgreens/Agfa 200 for everyday daylight shooting, I decided to try a 4-pack of the Walgreens/Agfa 400.
Lately I've been having very good luck shooting Fuji 400 at night, but exposing it at 800 in the GIII, thus underexposing it a stop. I decided to test out the W/A 400 both in this mode and also exposing it at 400 in daylight.
I'm attaching a few examples from the first roll.
First of all, in daylight it was fine. The first shot below is very typical. Good saturation, but not overstated. Good blue sky, but not Fuji Blue. 🙂 🙂 The colors appear to be about as vivid as the W/A 200.
Now for night scenes. I tried the 400 exposed at 800 method and they just didn't come out as I wanted. No, not underexposed, actually, but the colors just are not right, or at least not what I expected.
I know that this is tricky, and urban neighborhood night scenes are the epitome of bad lighting. However, the film seemed to want to lean toward green, even in the warmish incandescent lights. The examples below seem to look ok, but they just aren't as as I saw them, and nothing I can do seems to bring out any blue at all.
If I try adjusting the blue levels, even partly, the results are very bizarre, surreal, almost solarized in appearance.
In the one shot below the awnings are definitely not yellow-greenish, but that is as close as I can get it adjusting levels.
Anyway, this film works, and for shooting in any kind of "normal" light I'm sure it will be fine. However, for night scenes -- it's not nearly as bad as that W/A 800 I tried last spring -- quite a bit better actually, but it doesn't perform like the Fuji does.
I'll probably continue to use Fuji for night shooting. And, seeing the other thread, it looks like Fuji film will be around longer than W/A will.
In conclusion, I'm glad I tried this. It didn't perform as well as I expected under nighttime situations, but actually I could live with the results if I had to. 🙂
Lately I've been having very good luck shooting Fuji 400 at night, but exposing it at 800 in the GIII, thus underexposing it a stop. I decided to test out the W/A 400 both in this mode and also exposing it at 400 in daylight.
I'm attaching a few examples from the first roll.
First of all, in daylight it was fine. The first shot below is very typical. Good saturation, but not overstated. Good blue sky, but not Fuji Blue. 🙂 🙂 The colors appear to be about as vivid as the W/A 200.
Now for night scenes. I tried the 400 exposed at 800 method and they just didn't come out as I wanted. No, not underexposed, actually, but the colors just are not right, or at least not what I expected.
I know that this is tricky, and urban neighborhood night scenes are the epitome of bad lighting. However, the film seemed to want to lean toward green, even in the warmish incandescent lights. The examples below seem to look ok, but they just aren't as as I saw them, and nothing I can do seems to bring out any blue at all.
If I try adjusting the blue levels, even partly, the results are very bizarre, surreal, almost solarized in appearance.
In the one shot below the awnings are definitely not yellow-greenish, but that is as close as I can get it adjusting levels.
Anyway, this film works, and for shooting in any kind of "normal" light I'm sure it will be fine. However, for night scenes -- it's not nearly as bad as that W/A 800 I tried last spring -- quite a bit better actually, but it doesn't perform like the Fuji does.
I'll probably continue to use Fuji for night shooting. And, seeing the other thread, it looks like Fuji film will be around longer than W/A will.
In conclusion, I'm glad I tried this. It didn't perform as well as I expected under nighttime situations, but actually I could live with the results if I had to. 🙂
