I'm using 400 speed film, N65 Nikon with setting on automatic, SB-600 flash. The pictures are grainy in all settings, but especially in darker environments.
2007-02-21 01:30:45 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Consumer Electronics ➔ Cameras
If you're using flash, I would recommend going to a 100ISO or lower film, which ought to improve the graininess. Your subject will be well-lit despite being in a dark environment, if your flash is correctly metered, and there ought to be no reason not to use as low of an ISO film as you can find.
2007-02-21 01:42:42 · answer #1 · answered by Driveshaft 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's normal.
If you want better grain, go to 100 speed in bright light or closer flash (under 10 feet).
Fasters films get that way with bigger grains of silver so they have more surface area and thus react to lower light. In very dark lighted pictures only a FEW grains get exposed, the rest don't. Thus your pictures are made up of fewer grains.
In very, very bright light 400 film looks almost as good as 200 film, until you start doing enlargements or cropping, then the differences show up.
2007-02-21 02:05:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋