>>3260856>it seemed to me like I needed the power output of a supernova in order to take good photos.Your brain is tricking you by compensating the (lack of) brightness, what's bright to the naked eye can be really dim to film.
Indoors and artificial light is usually too dim for anything slower than ISO400 and an f/2 lens.
Now you're 3 stops lower than that with your equipment and film combination, that's a lot.
The simplest suggestion is to get a cheap, fast 50mm lens, something like an f/1.8. Then try to get ISO400 film.
Also, since artificial light is pretty shit in colour, I prefer to shoot B&W. This can give me an extra stop too, since I can push to ISO800 easily with almost no shadow detail loss.
That said, film is no match for digital in high-ISO situations, there's a huge gap. Good news is, if something is too dim for ISO800 and f/1.4 or thereabouts, then it's usually too shitty of a light to be worth shooting in anyway.
