[Leica] Film exposure error - how to correct it

[Peter Dzwig]

I think I will end up chatting to Ilford and making sure that they scan what is
there well. Then I will see have to see what I can do.

Peter

On 16/08/2017 15:21, Gerry Walden wrote:
> I notice that the Ilford order form gives you the option of specifying push/pull processing so I would still be inclined to discuss it with them on the phone and go with what they say.
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>> On 16 Aug 2017, at 10:21, Peter Dzwig <pdzwig at summaventures.com> wrote:
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>> All,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I send film to Ilford to process. My question is: how should I tell them to
>> develop it?
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>> I think I have the following options:
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>> (i) DON'T - just bin it and write it off to bad luck!
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>> (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.
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>> (iii) Develop it as one or the other (125 or 400 ASA)
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>> Any other thoughts/recommendations?
>>
>> Peter
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>> 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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