{"id":4101,"date":"2024-05-18T23:32:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T22:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/?p=4101"},"modified":"2025-10-12T13:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T12:12:39","slug":"fooling-around-with-artificial-lighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/fooling-around-with-artificial-lighting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fooling around with artificial lighting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I bought a fresh roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 to test the film in daylight and under artificial light. I set up some LED lamps and flash lights and took pictures with the Nikon FM2. I also shot the same pictures with a Nikon D200 for later comparison. Here are the D200 pictures from the session.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data-attachment-id=\"4103\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/18\/fooling-around-with-artificial-lighting\/copyright-c-2023-eddy-young-2-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/2024-05-18-0012.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;D200&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;Copyright (C) 2023 Eddy 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I set up some LED lamps and flash lights and took pictures with the Nikon FM2. I also shot the same pictures with a Nikon D200 for later comparison. Here are the D200 pictures from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1j9q5-149","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4114,"url":"https:\/\/priscimon.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/22\/nailed-it\/","url_meta":{"origin":4101,"position":0},"title":"Nailed it!","author":"Eddy Young","date":"22 May 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Those pictures mentioned in my post about playing with artificial light? They were a total loss. I messed up the development. I was not very happy about this costly mistake and needed to know what went wrong. 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The keepers make me glad that I forced myself to shoot the Farnborough Airshow this year. 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I bought two of them on eBay and successfully used one today with my Nikon FM2. The Shirley Wellard's beautiful design and solid build are not my only reasons for buying them. 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