>>4399095
The only reason I ever bought a digital camera was because night photography off film fucks and sucks. But if you insist, don't try and hand hold ridiculous exposure times, use a meter, use a tripod and good luck.

>>4399095
Take a good light meter and adjust accordingly, no one can tell you a set of adjustments that will work universally in those conditions.
For the best results push it to 1600, but no more.

>>4399095
Handheld at 1.4 you should be good with 1/60, I shoot night with portra and cinestill 800 often and I'm usually going handheld with either a 1.8 or 1.7 lens. A tripod is always a good idea however, especially for the less open lenses since it will let you shoot longer exposures freely (and you can get neat effects like car/train light trails zooming by). Just note for exposure if you're focusing in on a light source that's going to need good metering otherwise you'll end up with a washed out photo; you either need to accept that only the light sources and the immediate reflected light will be captured or you're going to want to recompose and meter with the light out of the frame.

>>4399155
Cool thanks.

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>>4399204
np, happy shooting. just looking through some of my saved pics and to add re your question in the OP, it does very much matter where the light is coming from and how much of the frame its filling when shooting longer fl. if you point at something illuminated and it looks fairly bright in your viewfinder, you can expect it to need a shorter exposure time to capture details. for instance, this was either 1/60 or 1/125 at an f/16 equivalent (f/8 mirror lens with a 2x teleconverter) and it was on 100iso film. obviously the moon is a bit of a special case since it is very bright, but the principle applies to any long lens like your 100-300

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>>4399207
just gonna post some more night shots, this is (I think) 1.8 1/60 cine800

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>>4399209
fuji 400 for sure, either 1.8 or 2 at 1/60

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>>4399211
f/2 1/60 I wanna say? perhaps even 2.8

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>>4399213
Nice. Very rockwellian. Maybe notch the saturation up just a few notches tho.

>>4399095
Portra 800 will do just fine, don't have to push it if you have tripod. For handheld its peak is at 1600. Try some Vision3 as well or cinestill 800t if you don't want to mess with remjet (or have lab do it). They work pretty good in night with tungsten temperature lights.
Measure the exposure, phone apps do good job as phone sensors and software to process their input is under constant improvement so normies can take photos in shitty lighting. To calculate reciprocity failure use (measured time)^1.31 as base and bracket it to 1.26
Most of the times cameras that measure light of the film surface and can adjust time accordingly do a better job than all those measuring and calculations. Try Olympus OM-2, Minolta x-700, Nikon F3

>>4399209
>>4399211
Seems to me 800 at handheld speed works albeit barely, but it's good to know that I can pull it off whenever a tripod isn't viable. Although the highly contrasted aesthetic is kinda nice in its own way, gives a very gloomy atmosphere. My 50mm/1.4 will come in handy for those. Thanks for the reassurance on this.