Re: OT: Theater photo film choice (Brian's ramblings)
That's exactly what I've done for years, ever since reading this advice in the late 70s from Modern Photography's film expert, whose name was something like Rothbard. He routinely dialed in 2/3 additional exposure to help ensure saturation and detail. I often forget to add exposure when shooting into a mildly backlit condition or one where a bright sky dominates. So if I feel the roll will be used mostly for grab shots, it's not uncommon for me to shoot 800 ISO film at +1.33 stops, or ISO 330. Never had any problems with excessive contrast. Aaron Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a customer who routinely push processes Portra 160VC for effect. His results are excellent...quite poppy colour, but not overcontrasty. Here's the catch: he does NOT underexpose the film! He actually overexposes it by about a stop and a half (I think he said he rates it at ISO 50). This gives him a very clean white highlight, almost blocked up, and the "push" processing lowers the contrast enough that the final result is more printable. - -Aaron Paul Franklin Stregevsky - 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 .
Re: OT: Theater photo film choice (Brian's ramblings)
Brian wrote: I have been using Fuji NHGII-800, pushed either 1 or 2 stops ... whenever I shoot C41 film that has to be pushed, I usually try to give it at least a third of a stop more light than I rate it for, ie.Shoot at 2500 and process at 3200 etc. OK, please explain something to me. If, as Bill and Aaron, our resident processing gurus say, C41 is not pushable, but, rather, is a develop to completion process, how do you "push" Fuji NGH one or two stops. What is your technique for processing it at 3200, etc.? -- Shel Belinkoff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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 .
Re: OT: Theater photo film choice (Brian's ramblings)
- Original Message - From: "Shel Belinkoff" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: April 7, 2001 9:25 AM Subject: Re: OT: Theater photo film choice (Brian's ramblings) Brian wrote: I have been using Fuji NHGII-800, pushed either 1 or 2 stops ... whenever I shoot C41 film that has to be pushed, I usually try to give it at least a third of a stop more light than I rate it for, ie.Shoot at 2500 and process at 3200 etc. OK, please explain something to me. If, as Bill and Aaron, our resident processing gurus say, C41 is not pushable, but, rather, is a develop to completion process, how do you "push" Fuji NGH one or two stops. What is your technique for processing it at 3200, etc.? We've been down this road a couple of times, now. Here we go again. Colour negative film has several stops of exposure latitude. If you underexpose it, but the important shadow detail is still imbedded on the emulsion, you will have a relatively acceptable print. What you get whenever you underexpose/overdevelop is a decrease in shadow detail, with an increase in contrast. With C-41, as you increase development, you also increase the mask (thats what we call that orange coloured base) density. What does happen with over developed C-41 film is that shadow and midtone values do move up the exposure scale somewhat more than highlight values, thereby increasing the amount of dye that is formed around those exposure values. This does increase relative saturation, and may give an appearance of a speed increase. Unfortunately, the film's speed point is measured at it's threshold exposure value, and this is immutable. No increase in processing time will alter that value. William Robb - 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 .
OT: Theater photo film choice
Hi all. I'm reading on a new italian photo mag that Fuji finally released a new Superia 1600 4-layers film. It's branded as consumer film, did anybody got to test it? No data sheet available as yet on Fuji's site. Others options are Supra or Superia 800 which I'd possibly try to push. I'd like to stir a bit more argument about the unpushability of negative film. If this is true why do film producers insist in giving pushing info in their documentation? Come on, Sask. Bill, get eloquent ;-). The last option is Kodak RG 1000. I used this in my last venture in this field with good results. The promo stuff from Kodak says although the film is for daylight it can be used with other kinds of lighting without need of filters. Maybe this is true for ALL negative films. I already got some useful advice from knowledgeable people but I'd like to have some more opinions, especially from those who did or do theater photo (Brian?). Thanks, Flavio - 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 .
Re: OT: Theater photo film choice (Brian's ramblings)
On 6 Apr 2001, at 9:55, Brian wrote: Hmm film for Theater (actually I've been shooting more dance recently than anything else...) Lately for color I have been using Fuji NHGII-800, pushed either 1 or 2 stops (depending on the ambient light available - I never use flash) and unfiltered. I have been doing my color printing myself lately, up to 11 x 14 in the darkroom yeilds some excellent results. The grain is apparent when this film is pushed that far, but it hasn't been overly mushy and the clients really like the work. It does take some time to get the filtration right though, to fully correct tungsten light for color film is not possible IMO, but a "warmer" tone I find is more pleasing to my eyes than something that has been too heavily corrected. Hi Brian, Interesting, how is the contrast when the NHGII-800 is pushed? How is the shadow detail? Are you shooting spotlit performers or flood lit stages? I love this film for compressing contrast but If I want punch I usually use Portra 800 these days. Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 Fax +61-2-9554-9259 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications.html - 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 .
