Nikonos is a film camera, him saying to use \"print film\" implies a certain type of negative.
It means to use print/negative film rather the slide/reversal film, due to the latter\'s narrower exposure lattitude, and the ability to adjust prints after the shoot.
With experience, one can succesfully shoot reversal film underwater as easily as on the surface, and not all that long ago, most publications preferred slides/chromes for submissions. Nowadays, when everything gets converted to digital at some point in the workflow it really shouldn\'t matter whether you shoot on negative film, reversal film, or digital sensors...heck, even glass plates if that flips your pancakes.
But if you\'re not used to underwater photography in general, and the Nikonos in particular, shooting negatives rather than slides will make it just a bit more likely that you\'ll have a good percentage of \"keepers.\"
Nikonos is a film camera, him saying to use \"print film\" implies a certain type of negative.
It means to use print/negative film rather the slide/reversal film, due to the latter\'s narrower exposure lattitude, and the ability to adjust prints after the shoot.
With experience, one can succesfully shoot reversal film underwater as easily as on the surface, and not all that long ago, most publications preferred slides/chromes for submissions. Nowadays, when everything gets converted to digital at some point in the workflow it really shouldn\'t matter whther you shoot on negative film, reversal film, or digital sensors...heck, even glass plates if that flips your pancakes.
But if you\'re not used to underwater photography in general, and the Nikonos in particular, shooting negatives rather than slides will make it just a bit more likely that you\'ll have a good percentage of \"keepers.\"
Nikonos is a film camera, him saying to use \"print film\" implies a certain type of negative.
It means to use print/negative film rather the slide/reversal film, due to the latter\'s narrower exposure lattitude, and the ability to adjust prints after the shoot.
With experience, one can succesfully shoot reversal film underwater as easily as on the surface, and not all that long ago, most publications preferred slides/chromes for submissions. Nowadays, when everything gets converted to digital at some point in the workflow it reaaly shouldn\'t matter whther you shoot on negative film, reversal film, or digital sensors...heck, even glass plates if that flips your pancakes.
But if you\'re not used to underwater photography in general, and the Nikonos in particular, shooting negatives rather than slides will make it just a bit more likely that you\'ll have a good percentage of \"keepers.\"
Nikonos is a film camera, him saying to use \"print film\" implies a certain type of negative.
It means to use print/negative film rather the slide/reversal film, due to the latter\'s narrower exposure lattitude, and the ability to adjust prints after the shoot.
With experience, one can succesfully shoot reversal film underwater as easily as on the surface, and not all that long ago, most publications preferred slide/chromes for submissions. Nowadays, when everything gets converted to digital at some point in the workflow it reaaly shouldn\'t matter whther you shoot on negative film, reversal film, or digital sensors...heck, even glass plates if that flips your pancakes.
But if you\'re not used to underwater photography in general, and the Nikonos in particular, shooting negatives rather than slides will make it just a bit more likely that you\'ll have a good percentage of \"keepers.\"
Nikonos is a film camera, him saying to use \"print film\" implies a certain type of negative.
It means to use print/negative film rather the slide/reversal film, due to the latter\'s narrower exposure lattitude, and the ability to adjust prints after the shoot.
HTH.
Nov 19, 2008 at 06:48 AM
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