Topic: Shooting 3000 at 75 on Land Camera

[SLVR]

I got my land camera this week and ive been playing around with it. I find that its hard for the camera to get a perfect exposure how i want so i find myself compensating a lot.

I had the idea, i wonder what would happen if i put 3000 speed film in my land and shot it at 75 at its darkest setting. I hadnt seen or heard of it in my short online pokings and figured it wasnt worth posting the question. Why not try it myself. We are all filmwasters after all!

My result was really exciting. I was very happy. This was indoors with one lamp of to the side and me holding the camera down on a stable surface.



Is this a common thing for any land owners? How do you set your lighten darken wheels?

[SLVR]

one other thing, i found the negative much easier to scan than my other shots ive scanned so far.

[calbisu]

Hi Tintin! I have a land 195 and, not automatic exposure but all manual. Myself had problem of properly exposing the 3000 until I treated it as 6400. So then I think it makes senses that you move the wheel to dark, as the machine is reading the film as 3000 but in reality is 6400 so then the camera overexposes 

[Andrea.]

Hi TinTin,
You could lighten your wheels by getting 28 spokers or, just changing the tyres for white ones.
Hope that helps :-)

[Francois]

 

[Jack Johnson]

Hi TinTin,
You could lighten your wheels by getting 28 spokers or, just changing the tyres for white ones.
Hope that helps :-)

Plus, 3-cross lacing on a fixie? For shame!

[Miller]

Is that a brake I spy.... Methinks it be a single speed not a fixie...   

[Ed Wenn]

Geeks...all of you!!

 

[SLVR]

you bike nerds! 

Actually the brake is my FRONT brake. and it's pronounced "fixed gear" not fixie. Fixie sounds like i drink too much starbucks, listen to morrissey, and wear loafers with no socks.

I take it not too many land owners reside here?

Calbisu, Wouldnt shooting 3000 film at 6400 be underexposing the film not overexposing? Im talking about overexposing the film a lot. Also my Land is a 420 so im stuck with 75 and 3000 unfortunately.

[moominsean]

I use an nd filter on my 190 so i can shoot 3000 at 3.8.

[Poliweb]

one other thing, i found the negative much easier to scan than my other shots ive scanned so far.

So is the positive over exposed when you do this? I have started shooting FP-3000B and found that an overexposed positive makes for a more easily scannable negative (less solarization on the shadow areas.) Looks to me like you're getting less grain too.

Richard

[Chalky]

Hi,
I have a 195 and also a 340, which was my main camera until I picked up the 195.

I used to use the lighten/darken wheel on the 340 when shooting 125i or 690 - I'd move it to darken a little to compensate for the 125/100 iso film and the camera being set at 75 iso.

I'm never any good at working this out but I guess that means you are overexposing by 5 (?) stops? somewhere on the interweb I have read the stops difference the lighten and darken wheel makes, but I htink all the way to one side only makes one stop difference.

the shutter must be open for a long time if the camera thinks it is shooting 75 speed film indoors?

Anyway I'm rambling and not really helping much - but it is a nice picture and good luck with further experiments.