[Leica] More on Pushing C-41 films

[richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)]

At 04:56 AM 3/19/2005, Peter Dzwig wrote:
>Shot off a roll at 1600, took it down to TWO local developing shops and 
>got the same reply: "can't do it, can't put it through the machine on 
>anything other than the standard processes - take it to a pro shop"

The conventional wisdom is that neg film can stand -2/-3 stops of 
underexposures so you can compensate in printing. Even the JOBO 
instructions warn that "pushing" film not meant for pushing will get 
difficult to print neg due to color balance, contrast and grain. 
Nevertheless, they recommend 15% more development time for every stop of 
pushing.

I tried pushing ASA800 neg once and it looks horrible :-) The Superia 1600 
looks much better.

>NOW, do I remember someone saying a long time ago on the LUG that the way 
>to deal with C-41 is to have it developed as a normal film, regardless of 
>the speed  you've rated it at?
>
>How do you deal with it Didier?
>

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