Cinestill disaster, Doh!

[kuvvy]

Bought a couple of rolls of Cinestill. One roll of 800 and one of 50. Not cheap at £10 a roll. God knows why I did it but I've been shooting the 800 at 50 ISO. I reckon it's ruined now and not worth the cost of processing. Anyone know how bad it will be?

Paul

 

[chrishayton]

oops. Just get it processed somewhere cheaply and I can scan it in and see whats rescuable.

 

[gbealnz]

Might be talking through a hole in my head (colloquially speaking of course), but in the good old days you were able to get a roll "pushed", where you shot it at a lower ASA and had the processing compensate. I am not sure if "pull-processing" is/was available, but it was the first thing I thought of. It would of course require a specialist lab, and this will cost, but only you can tell if this is an option at all.

If not, then fire it through a simple cheap lab as negs only, and see, the cost will be minimal, and you just never know.

And before you feel too bad, I'll wager virtually everyone here has done the same thing, those that haven't either will, or have their heads buried in the digital age.
Gary

 

[sevo]

In general, pushing and pulling does not do much to sensitivity - it fixes contrast issues, which you may get when under- or overexposure push the film beyond either knee. Pulling is intentionally done to lower the contrast of slide or black and white film, but CN has more latitude and reduced contrast to start with, so it will not benefit in the same way - you'd lose saturation at a faster rate than you can recover from washed-out highlights, so pulling is rarely offered by CN labs.

Just develop it regular and see what you can get from it - a multipass scan ought to recover enough for use as a document, but probably not as a work of art...

 

[leicapixie]

Process normally. I assume it's "C-41" color.
I once shot 800 Fuji at about 64-ISO thinking it was Kodak Gold 100. It printed fine. Different but OK!
Mistakes happen, we all make them..😀

 

[Sparrow]

... that's only four stops, it'll be fine ... bit dense to scan maybe in the highlights, but bags of detail in the shadows

... and at least you get to keep all the silver this time 😀

 

[kuvvy]

Cheers for the info guys. I still think there's a third of the roll left so I'll shoot that at the normal speed, have it processed and see what turns out. According to the Cinestill site, 800 has LATITUDE! It can be overexposed at 100 to get more shdow detail and finer grain. Whether it will make a difference having shot it in daylight we'll wait and see.

Paul

 

[robert blu]

Now we are all curious to see what will come out...please when developed and scanned post a couple of pics...
robert