What would be the best proffesional 35mm film for theatre photography that plan to get printed and scanned. Being indoors with little lights it would need to be sensitive with fine grain but with the lights on stage flaring into the lens, i would think something around 400iso but im not sure of a good brand to get?
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The only film I can think of for low light/tungsten photography is movie film. But there are drawbacks.
1. You will need to load the cassetes yourself.
2.It is processed in a special chemistry. A&I labs sometimes sells preloaded movie film and processes it once a week on tuesdays. It is returned one week later. You will get a motion picture print (slides) and the negatives. $15/roll.
3. Choose 5219, or if not available 5218 stock ISO 500 tungsten.
4. It may look a little more grainy than still camera film.
5. If A&I doesn't have the film preloaded, there are a few small companies that sell leftover raw stock for movies. They are probably located in Hollywood or New York. Last month I obtained 150' of 5218 for free from one of them. (150' is too short for movie work)
I promise you will get the best results using a digital SLR camera for this type of work though.
Let us know how it all comes out...
-bruce