Hi all,
I've been doing some more learning-the-hard-way. Today's lesson is
that when you shoot neg film to be cross-processed in E6, overexpose
it by a few stops. If I'd done some research prior to shooting I'd
have had better results. The film looked completely unexposed but I
could just make out a few details if I held it up to very bright
light, so I decided to try scanning it anyway.
I was actually surprised that the scanner was able to pull anything
out of the film. The red channel was virtually non-existent but
green & blue were both OK.
Here are the three frames I scanned, which have all been processed
quite heavily. The first is the only one that I didn't desaturate
because it seemed to take weird colours quite well, and I was having
difficulty trying to make a reasonable B&W conversion.
Frame 4 (~100kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_4.html
Frame 7 (~80kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_7.html
Frame 9 (~90kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_9.html
I think the flare in the last one is mostly caused by a minor light
leak in the body, which I've yet to have repaired. When the film is
this underexposed the leak has a much greater effect :(
All three were taken using a Pentax 6x7. Frame 7 with the 90mm ff/
2.8 lens, the others with the 45mm f/4.
- Dave
