On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, William Robb wrote: > > What you called uprating is one of my pet peeves. The generic > term is actually "pushing" the film, and it causes a loss of > shadow detail and an increase in contrast. If you are shooting > in very flat light, it is not so bad, but often, the environment > that pushed film finds itself being used in is high contrast > stuff, such as night street photography.
aah! Now I can see. If I uprate/push a 400 ASA B/W film to 1600 ASA, shall I be able to see grains appearing in the negetive/4 inch by 6 inch sized prints? I have never tried it, so I don't know. > I would use the developer once and discard it, on general > principles. Stay with the rule of thumb (for D-76, anyway) which > is minimum 100ml of stock solution per roll of film, and discard > after use. > > William Robb Yep! I won't do any kind of jugglery this time which may end to ruined negetives. Thanks for your advice. With kind regards, Ayash. - 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 .