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My experience has been that Agfa Supreme fulfills all of these requirements to perfection. With a ‘"G” filter, shooting at 1 /250th of a second at an opening of /: 5.6, I am able to stop the vibration of any type of aircraft, and get a picture with definition, brilliance and sparkle that nothing else seems to give. As for grain size, since I have been using Supreme I have had very little occasion to give a thought to grain. Most of my aerial negatives have been enlarged to 11x14, and some to even larger sizes. Yet even in such enlargements, the grain remains so inconspicuous that when, as recently, I exhibited a 20x30 inch enlargement from an aerial minicam negative to a photographic friend, and boasted pridefully of the fine-grain quality, I got the reply, ‘‘What grain?”
Blimps and Planes.
So much depends on individual developing methods that most statements as to film speeds must necessarily be generalities. The official factors quoted for Supreme’s speed by both Weston and Agfa — Weston 64 — seems to me to be a most conservative average. In my own use of the film I always take my meter readings using a speed factor of 100, incidentally using the same figure for both natural and artificial light, and I still have to watch myself to keep from overexposing and overdeveloping my negatives.
Working under unfavorable conditions I have found Supreme to have not only unusual speed, but unusual latitude in development. It is really uncanny to see the way the film gives quality results even when for any reason you have to force the development to the extreme.
Long Beach Photographed by
Marine Stadium Franklin S. Allen
Making aerial pictures, either for pleasure or for business, a blimp like the Goodyear blimp 1 used is without doubt the ideal type of aircraft. Only in a blimp can you have the motors throttled down, or switched off entirely, allowing the ship to hang motionless in the air over your subject, while you open a window, lean out and snap your picture at leisure.
On the other hand, if you are going somewhere on one of the commercial airlines, don't let the fact that you will be flying in a 200-mile-an-hour cabin ship give you the idea you can't get good aerial pictures with your minicam. You can! In the course of my work I frequently fly up and down the coast, or to New York, and on these trips I've bagged many excellent pictures with my Contax.
In general, any shutter-speed over 1 /250th of a second will he fast enough to stop the vibration from the engines; but don't make the mistake of bracing your camera or your elbows on any part of the plane. That intensifies the vibration, transmitting it more strongly to the camera. Instead, brace your elbows against your body, and use your whole body as a shockabsorber for the camera.
Always make a point of being first at the gate, and select the rear seat
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