Tiips on shooting with Neopan 400 ?

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Hi
some quick questions..
Any tips on shooting with neopan 400?
is it alright to overexpose by 1/3 to 2/3 and develop at iso 400?

how does pushing neopan 400 to 800 (or more) affect the images?
 
I really like Neopan 400. I always exposed it at 320, with no problems, although this sort of fine-tuning is really more dependent on metering technique. As with most B+W it will take a fairly healthy amount of overexposure. Never pushed so can't comment on that.

Some of my stuff shot on neopan, all metered @320 (or guessed exposure) and dev'ed in HC-110 dil B.
 
I really like Neopan 400 and use it interchangeably with Tri-X. I expose at EI 200 and dev in HC-110 dilution H. It is lovely tonally, especialy for portraits and reportage.
My one good tip with this film, is not to over agitate. I give 30 secs initial, then 2 gentle inversions at the start of each minute.

(I print from my negs, so I can not comment on scanning.)

Regards, John.
 

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I've spent a lot of time with Neopan 400 and various developers. It scans really well for me, partly because it doesn't seem to curl much. I found that when pushed in most developers, the shadows get very black indeed. However, in Diafine I found that you almost don't notice you've pushed it. If you don't need to push, it's glorious in Tanol@200 or Prescysol EF@400.
 
I love Neopan 400 and find it works great in a variety of developers.

Here's a link to all my Neopan 400 tagged photos on Flickr. You'll see that in most of my image titles I have info about developer used and often the times and temps too:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=38698047@N00&q=Neopan+400&m=text

Oh, and Neopan should scan fine with your Nikon scanner. All the 35mm scans on Flickr were scanned on my Nikon Coolscan 4000 which should have similar characteristics to your Coolscan V.

And in terms of over-exposing it (rating less than 400) I only do so when I'm shooting in bright, contrasty conditions (in which I also pull development time by 20% or so) or if I am shooting a subject in which shadow detail will be the utmost in importance. Overexposed, dense negs can be a bear to scan.
 
rich815 said:
I love Neopan 400 and find it works great in a variety of developers.

Here's a link to all my Neopan 400 tagged photos on Flickr. You'll see that in most of my image titles I have info about developer used and often the times and temps too:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=38698047@N00&q=Neopan+400&m=text
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i notice that some of your images are sepia tone looking
is this due to your developer or something you tweak in photoshop?

when i scan neopan, will it be black and white? (sorry newbie question)
thanks
 
haagen_dazs said:
i notice that some of your images are sepia tone looking
is this due to your developer or something you tweak in photoshop?

when i scan neopan, will it be black and white? (sorry newbie question)
thanks
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If you scan for B&W neg or greyscale then yes, it will be B&W. Any toning you see in my images was added for effect.
 
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