Best Travel Films
By the Editors hat do you, as a traveling photographer, want out of However, it is not your film? Probably, on the most basic level, the as- without a few drawbacks. Wsurance that your photographs will faithfully embody At ISO 25, it's very slow, what you saw when you took them. So, you want film with requiring fairly bright light lev- good color reproduction and image quality, just as all photog- els (i.e., bright sunlight) or the use of a raphers do. However, you also want film that can withstand tripod (the tripod, though awkward for travel- the rigors of travel: temperature and humidity changes, airport ers to carry, is a good idea when shoot- X-rays—to name a few. And you want film that will handle a ing with this film, as it will optimize im- wide variety of shooting conditions: bright sunlight, night fes- age quality—if your images are blurred tivities, rainy days, interiors, posed shots and action shots. due to camera shake, you As you can probably guess, no one film can satisfy all won't get good blow-ups, these requirements. Color-print films have great exposure lati- despite the film's inherent tude, but their prints lack the complete tonal range of color superb quality). And it has slides. Slow films provide superb image quality, but won't let less exposure latitude than you shoot fast-moving subjects, or in dim light (unless you're most color-print films— shooting a stationary subject and using a tripod, or using a it's best used by knowl- flash unit).
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