Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/06/11

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Subject: [Leica] Pushing Provia F400--one stop, two stops
From: richard-lists at imagecraft.com (Richard)
Date: Sat Jun 11 13:58:33 2005
References: <02a801c56ec5$af1a8290$6701a8c0@KRIEGERLPT>
 
Some people don't believe there is such a thing as pushing a film. I asked 
that a couple months ago re: Tri-X and got lots of different answers. 
Search for the archive for that. The conventional wisdom is also that slide 
films do not push as well.

 From my experience, pushing Provia 400F one stop is OK but I wouldn't do 
two, exactly for the reasons you mentioned.

At 01:39 PM 6/11/2005, you wrote:

>I find that when I push Provia F400 one stop, the results are quite good. 
>Two stops seems to make it much more grainy, and also the shadow detail 
>really does not get improved much. Put differently, the low values don't 
>get two stops of push, the high values do, and so the darker parts of the 
>image (which the push was supposed to rescue) seem not so much improved. 
>Is this all standard for those of you who do this regularly?
>
>Martin Krieger

// richard (This email is for mailing lists. To reach me directly, please 
use richard at imagecraft.com)
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