There are some other films that bear mentioning as well some of which don't
require push processing or other custom lab features:
Fuji Press 1600 and Fuji Super HG 1600 are both standard color print (C41
process) films with ASA 3200 speed right out of the box. They can be shot at
their rated speed and developed by the local minilab.
Fuji Press 800, another C41 emulsion, can be pushed 2 stops to 3200 with
good results as well from my own experiance, but will require at least
deveoping by a custom lab.
I've not done it personally, but I've seen decent prints from Portra 800
pushed to 3200.
And you mentioned Fuji's Provia, a 1600 slide film, but there's also Kodak's
EPH-1600, and their ASA 3200 counterpart to the Ilford Delta you noted,
Kodak's TMZ-3200 emulsion.
None of these are going to be Velvia-quality material, but I think there are
several that will provide acceptable solutions, just none as good as the 200
1.8L and the 400 2.8L.
Tom P.
----- Original Message -----
From: "F. Craig Callahan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: EOS film speeds
>
> If you do this with color film what you will get is, not to put too fine a
point
> on it, crap. The loss of color fidelity and the enormous build-up of
contrast
> that will result from the necessary push-processing will likely make the
results
> unacceptable, perhaps even unuseable. About the best you can hope for with
color
> is Fuji's Provia 1600 (a transparency film), which I have tried exactly
once
> (for basketball) and found less-than-satisfactory. As for color negatives,
> pushing Fuji NHG II one stop to EI 1600 is about as far as I would go. If
you
> need an EI of 3200, you'll have to go to black and white: try Ilford Delta
3200
> and get it processed at a decent pro lab or learn to do it yourself in the
> kitchen--it's not very difficult--using Ilford DD-X or Kodak Xtol (perhaps
> diluted to 1:2 or 1:3). Fuji Neopan 400 can be pushed to 1600 with good
> results--probably as good (or better) than using Neopan 1600 straight up.
Delta
> 3200 @ 1600 is more grainy, but in an attractive way.
>
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