Best film for indoor reception?

[iulian_ignat]

<p>I will have in 2 weeks a reception where I will shoot on film. What kind of film should I use, considering an indoor reception from afternoon to night? I'm using two Minoltas: Maxxum 5 and Maxxum 7000i.</p>

[plasma181]

<p>Portra 400 should work very nicely. There used to be NC and VC; now they just call it 400. </p>

[peterbcarter]

<p>Second Robert.</p>

[ellis_vener_photography]

<p>Tmax 3200.</p>

[robert lee]

<p>Shoot 400 Tmax pushed to 1600.</p>

[john_shriver]

<p>If you don't have fast lenses, consider Portra 800 as well. Be sure you buy fresh Portra 800. It is less forgiving about exposure than Portra 400.</p>

[jpo3136b]

<p>Any general purpose film with a flash. As long as you don't fall into the trap of thinking a high film speed on the box will give you X-Ray vision, you're good. The leading trap to avoid is assuming that the film is fast enough to do just anything. As soon as you go indoors, you're likely to be at EV10 (nautical twilight) and below. On sunny 16, that'd already put you at f/2. For this reason, I suggest any general purpose film with a flash. </p>

[glenn_mabbutt]

<p>I also suggest going with whatever you normally like and use a flash. A few years back I made the mistake of trying to take some pics at a family wedding (not the paid photog, he took off early in the evening, so I was just having fun), but trying to shoot available-light. Big mistake - the lights were turned down so it was about EV 2-3 in the hall. I had a very, very low success rate.</p>

<p>The thing is, if alcohol is being served, the guests generally will be feeling too, um, *pleasant* to care about your flash anyway, so you won't be breaking the mood, if that's your concern.</p>