My husband and I took the Ful-Vue Super to a fireworks display on Bonfire Night in Inverness last year. We finally got round to developing the negatives a few days ago and here are the results.
We took the Super because it has a tripod thread and cable release socket, which were essential as we were going to be doing long exposures with bulb mode.
We were shooting Portra 160 film. Shooting fireworks is easy. You just hold the shutter open for as long as there is something pretty in the sky. 160 ISO may sound too slow for night shots but the fireworks are very bright and we didn't want them to overexpose. The background is just black sky, so no worries about overexposure causing unwanted glow. Underexposure wasn't a problem either as the background was meant to be black. Normally long exposures would need to account for reciprocity failure, but as the fireworks are moving they don't expose the same bit of film for very long so it wasn't an issue.
If you want to capture multiple bursts in one frame you can. Just take multiple exposures before winding on. If you want to break the bursts up to make the streaks of light look more like confetti, just take many rapid exposures (with a cable release of course). Nicky and I both took shots on the night but it was so long ago we don't remember who took what. Anyway, here they are:
It was great to be out and about with the Super. Sometimes it gets overlooked because it requires us to re-spool 120 film onto 620 spools, but for long exposures this is absolutely the one we need. The results are great.
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