Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/07/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg... I shot my brother's wedding awhile back with Delta 3200 pulled to 1600 and processed in XTOL. It was great for them [that was the look they wanted], but was still contrasty and grainy by my standards [Portra 160 NC is my film of choice]. If I had to do it again, I would shoot the same for them, but I would have the film processed professionally in XTOL by a lab, as my processing was not as good as I would have liked. I should also add that I took several other mono films out to their location [left coast] six months prior to the wedding, shot test scenes with both push and pull at the light levels they were expecting, processed everything in ye olde commercial developer at the pro lab [dunno what the soup was; they told me, but I can't remember]. Everything came back with gigantic grain; much more than I was expecting. Thus I descended into home processing of XTOL and got much better results. Even better results when I located a single pro lab here in the area that used XTOL for all their production processing. However, I wanted it to be a labor of love and processed everything myself. Hope that helps. /Mitch _________________________________________ Mitch Zeissler E-mail: zeissler@directvinternet.com > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 2:55 PM > Subject: [Leica] Push versus Pull > > Will be shooting black-and-white in available light at a nightclub with > minimal stage lighting reasonably soon. Expect to either push > some 400 speed film (Tri-X, HP5 or Delta 400) or maybe pull something (Kodak or Ilford > 3200). > > Skin tones are what's important in this shoot -- female singer -- which > leans me slightly toward the pull approach. Material is for reproduction, > online and, possibly, print. > > Greg Rubenstein - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html