[Leica] PUSH!

[SonC at aol.com (SonC@aol.com)]

Thanks, Ted, it is my sense that the pictures are bettert than they would 
have been with Superia film. I had to work a little harder, but for this 
particular shoot, they really look like the place.  I was pretty amazed too, 
that 
though the negs were so thin I would not have expected much in the way of 
prints, 
as scans were really good.  

Not that I want to make it my workflow, but the grain is probably tighter, 
and like you say, we are not terribly concerned about any color except black 
here, right?

That little 35 summicron showed it has the right stuff once again.

Sonny

In a message dated 7/28/2004 4:40:43 PM Central Daylight Time, 
tedgrant@shaw.ca writes:
Sonny Carter showed... saving his butt!" ;-)
Subject: [MUGers] PUSH!
> Last week, I was shooting at the hooker jones gig, and at about exposure
30,
> I realized I wasn't shooting Fuji 800 because 800 only gets 24 exposures.
>
>   Sure enough, when I rewound  I had exposed Fuji Reala more than 2 stops
> under.  I sent it to Chromacolor in San Diego, and got a two stop push.
>
> here's the results:    http://www.sonc.com/ramada_edit/<<<<<<<

Hi Sonny,
Cool stuff! :-) Probably better than if you had the "right film!" ;-)

It has the look of the old Ektachromes of yesteryear when we'd shoot it at 2
or 3 stops push at times for the magazine rotogravure section.

The neat thing about your shoot is... who cares what the colour balance is
because under those kind of lighting conditions one isn't shooting a pound
of butter and expecting perfect colour balance. Sure captured a nice mood of
the location and that's what counts more than whether a shirt is a perfect
white or warm yellowee sort of some colour. :-)

ted