josh_smith2

Hey everyone,

I am pretty new to photography and I am really interested in night

time photography. I am going to be purchasing a nikon d50 and a couple

of prime lenses such as the Nikkor 50mm/1.8 and the nikkor 50mm/1.4. I

know opening to the widest on the 1.4 isnt going to be the best

qaulity but what I am looking to do is capture night time images some

good qaulity and some I won't care as much for as long as You can tell

what is going on in the shot with ok qaulity. I know the the d50 is

capable of going up to 1600ISO which seemed good enough qaulity for

me. Anyways, my question is just how low of light would one be able to

shoot hand held at 1600iso with a 1.4 lense opened all the way up?

Hey everyone,

I was wondering if it would be possible to use the canon fd 50mm

1.8 lense with my canon rebel 2000 if I only used manual focus. If

not what would be a good low budget alternative below 150 dollars.

Mainly I need something good for low light photography without using

a flash with good sharpness/contrast.

Hello Alex,

I work at a lab that uses a Fuji Frontier 370. NNN 0 means that they didn't adjust the color manually. When they scan your negative into the film carrier and see your pictures on the screen they have an option to change certain colors and also density. NNN 0 means that they didn't change anything at all. There is something else that will not show up on the back of your print that auto corrects your image. It is an option in one of the menus on the fuji frontier software. It can control contrast, sharpness, and brightness as well. It does change color though. These can be turned off as I have done it my self when I print my own pictures, but depending on their policies they may or may not do it. Just to let you know these settings are usually set the same all the time so I don't see why it would vary like that unless someone changed it to do prints a certain way on an other person's roll and forgot to set it back to default. That could be the case. There is an other scenario that is possible. Perhaps the lab Technicians didn't do a condition setup on their paper properly, did not do their calibration in the morning correctly(Which can even change color if you print out the density measure before the chemicals in the printer are done warming up. There are also a lot more possibilites such as the paper they used could of been almost out of date, the chemicals ran out and were replaced with a new chemistry that is out of date or close to it, someone didn't clean the dryers properly, or someone cleaned the racks on the printer unproperly and caused chemical contamination. If it is not the printer it could also be the film carrier. There is a calibration for the scanner when you open in the morning called a scanner correction. If they pass this, it can do hell to picture qaulity. There are many other possibilites that I couldn't even type all about in 10 posts. Now concerning how your pictures are being cropped from when they are scanned. This is all in the film carrier. Most labs have only the film carriers that are not able to do full frame prints(unless its a professional lab). The reason why they use these is because it supposely prints out a better picture since you are stretching it out less. The bigger you make the print, the more it crops to retain better image qaulity. Finally, for learning about the frontier, I only know all this because I have worked at a lab that uses one for about a year. When we were not busy I would read through the fuji manuals as much as I could and so forth. Even the manuals themselves don't tell you even close to what there is to learn about them. I know this for a fact because fuji technicians know a lot more maybe because they have different manuals as well. I haven't seen any online documentation to the fuji frontiers really. If anyone knows of any please let me know! I love learning about the frontier so I can give customers better qaulity. Anyways, I hope what I had to say helped you out a bit.