Topic: Royal Gold 400 at the Knoxville Zoo

[DaveO]

   Attached are my downsized images at the Zoo.  I didn't remember this film being this grainy.  I guess between the 400 film, the cheap scan, and the film being in the refrigerator for a number of years this is the result.  All the pictures were taken with my Nikon FM2n with a 400mm Nikkor AIS f/4 lens.  The red panda is the most grainy ( the one with his tongue sticking out) because it is underexposed.  I should have put on my 135mm f/3.5 AIS lens, but that may not have been exposed much better.

[DaveO]

   I forgot to post the images, sorry.

[Rich815]

Not bad!  I photographed 3 out of those 4 animals at the Oakland Zoo today but with an F2 and a 50/2 Nikkor-H lens.  Shot Tri-X and Delta 400.  Not developed yet.

[DaveO]

    The Knoxville Zoo is kind of a disappointment compared to the Houston Zoo where I used to work. Houston has about 3x the number of animals in about the same size space. I've heard that the San Diego Zoo is about the best.

[DaveO]

Double Post

[jojonas~]

nice going with the tele. I've gone to an animal park with a 150 mm lens and I can say that I wish I had something longer.
I shocked myself with buying a x2 tele converter after that haha! never thought I'd want one

[Francois]

That's something I find always happens with old film. Grain gets bigger and bigger. I think it's probably due to the way the sensitivity curve changes over time.

[DaveO]

    I posted some of my digital images of the Knoxville Zoo on another forum and just noticed that the film images seem a little brighter and better color than the digital.