[Leica] Film exposure error - how to correct it

[Mark Rabiner]

You need a two-stop push. Lots of custom labs can do that. You’ll still have very thin shadows if they’re there at all but at least your film will not be under developed and can be printed with normal grades of paper.
You may get a few viable images off the roll.

 
 

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Mark William Rabiner
Photographer

On 8/16/17, 5:53 AM, "LUG on behalf of Gerry Walden" <lug-bounces+mark=rabinergroup.com at leica-users.org on behalf of gerry.walden at icloud.com> wrote:

    My advice would be to talk to the lb guy at Ilford, I feel sure he will give it the best treatment.
    
    Gerry
    
    Gerry Walden LRPS
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    > On 16 Aug 2017, at 10:21, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
    > 
    > All,
    > 
    > I put my M3 back in to use over the vacation. I was exposing the film in it as
    > ASA400 assuming that I had one of my usual films in it.
    > 
    > HOWEVER ( :-( ) I found that I had a roll of 125 ASA FP4+ in it when I came to
    > the end of the roll. When I started using it I had noticed that I had already
    > exposed some 10 frames. So I have 10 frames exposed at 125 ASA and 25 - or
    > thereabouts - exposed as 400 ASA. Most of the shots taken when I was assuming it
    > was 400 were exposed in the region of f8 - f16 at 1/500th.
    > 
    > I send film to Ilford to process. My question is: how should I tell them to
    > develop it?
    > 
    > I think I have the following options:
    > 
    > (i) DON'T - just bin it and write it off to bad luck!
    > 
    > (ii) Develop it as (say) 200 ASA, accept that some will be under-exposed and
    > that the rest will be over exposed and sort it out when I scan the film and play
    > with it in PS or NikFX (or whatever). The short exposure times on the 400 ASA
    > shots may help as they will be on he darker side.
    > 
    > (iii) Develop it as one or the other (125 or 400 ASA)
    > 
    > Any other thoughts/recommendations?
    > 
    > Peter
    > 
    > PS I know that I should shoot a whole roll before i forget what the film is and
    > go off on autopilot :-)
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    > 
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    > Dr Peter Dzwig				
    > 
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