Tim asked:
> Has anyone out there used Fuji Super HG 1600? It looks like the fastest
> color print film out there, but also doesn't appear to be commonly
> available: none of my usual stores here in Portland stock it and B&H has an
> inconsistent supply. Would it be just as easy to push Superia 800?
I used to use Super HG 1600. Konica SR-G 3200 was faster. AFAIK,
the Konica has been discontinued, and the Fuji has been replaced
with Press 1600. Super HG 1600 was somewhat grainy and a little
low-contrast -- it didn't really look like other Fuji films, but
when I needed the speed and couldn't afford the hard-to-find Konica...
(SR-G used to cost me 1.5-2x as much as Super HG.)
I shot some Fuji Press 1600 last Fall and just got it developed.
(I've got a lot of exposed film in the freezer, but this was of
my brother's wedding, so my mom said she'd pay for processing.)
Let's put it this way; if you push it to 3200 it starts to look
a bit like the old Super HG; Press 1600 pushed to 3200 gave me
better results than SR-G 3200 processed normally. Later on I'll
look and see whether there was any Press 1600 exposed at 1600 and
processed normally in that batch to compare to Super HG processed
normally.
In the past, folks said to shoot Fuji Press 800 and push it to 1600
instead of using Super HG. I'm not sure whether that's still the
case with Press 1600 on the scene.
-- Glenn
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