UTAHDEB@aol.com wrote:
Thanks Chuck, Patrick, and Rob. I have a couple of questions.
1. I found some slide film that I bought from Lumicon in '97. Will this film still work? It is Kodak P1600 film.
If it's been kept frozen you may be ok. At least that would be the case with regular film. I don't know about hypered film, though. If it's that old and has not been refrigerated the hypering is probably gone and the 1600 speed and image quality have probably been compromised.
2. When you guys say a "long exposure", is this longer than 10 minutes? I doubt that I will be making exposures longer than 10 or 15 minutes. "Long" is relative. But for piggyback photography 10 minutes seems to me to be a bit long.
Were it me, I'd probably shoot several series of 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2.5 minutes and 5 minutes exposures with the first series being shot wide open and each series after that closed 1 f/stop. Patrick