On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 01:08 PM, Joseph Tainter wrote: > > Bill, now I wonder what I have been getting when I request > push-processing. I often shoot NHGII 800 and Supra 800 at 2500 or 3200 > with a two stop push (shooting indoors). Often the results are nice, > sometimes not. If I am not getting a two-stop push in the processing, > what am I getting? Just underexposed negs.
Yep. As Bill posted in a different reply, the niceness of the negs will depend on the contrast range in the original scene. For all you non-believers out there, here's the challenge I issue: 1) Shoot two rolls of the same film of the same subject under the same conditions, a couple of stops under exposed. 2) Take the two rolls to the same lab, have one pushed and have one processed normally. 3) Figure out from the prints which one is which. From my experience, the pushed roll will be most easily identified by strange shifts in colour. C-41 films, as a rule, have a ton of latitude for over and under exposure, which is what leads people to think that they are pushing or pulling them. Really, they're just taking advantage of the range of the film. > Also, I just shot E100VS with a one-stop push under cloudy conditions. > The results were really quite nice. E-6 is a different animal from C-41. It is more like black & white than C-41. Pushing E-6 film brightens up the highlights. You don't gain any black detail, but detail that is already there will be brought up. On an overcast day, this brightening of the highlights will simply return a normal contrast range to the scene. Some E-6 films are designed to be very low contrast, with tons of black detail. These films push quite well, and often look better pushed than normally processed. -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
