Newbie needs help: Used wrong ISO setting, should I pull my Tmax 400?

[platorulez]

Ok I've gotten the negs back (decided to pull 2 stops), and they look usable. I'm going to scan them now... here goes!

 

[charjohncarter]

Be sure to post!

 

[platorulez]

Results of scan after pulling Tmax 400

Results of scan after pulling Tmax 400

Ok, finally done with the scanning and uploaded the pics to Flickr.

To recap, I shot the Tmax 400 at ISO 100 by mistake, and then sent it to my local film development shop for development with instructions to pull 2 stops.

Full set of usable pictures here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/photokalia/sets/72157620989180206/

Overall, the negatives were low on contrast and quite over exposed, but I was surprised by how much detail I was able to pull back into the picture after some editing in Lightroom. Basically I increased the contrast, and used a generous amount of highlight recovery.

While I don't think I'll do this again (not deliberately anyway), it was nice to know that film gives a lot of allowance for dumb mistakes 🙂

Thanks everyone for the wonderful advice. I really love this forum!

 

[charjohncarter]

I think I mentioned that I shoot Tmax400-2 at 250 when I use HC-110h and 200 when I use Rodinal 1+50, so you were a stop over what I do. But overexposure and overdevelopment is apparently a problem with Tmax. I had that problem and Arnold Gasson said (refering to old Tmax), "....T-Max films, which are notorious for producing unprintable highlights densities with even moderate errors of development."

Your images look fine, I guess pulling saved them. Possibly, what Arnold Gasson says is the reason many find TMax films difficult. I like them especially TMax100 which I shoot at 50 and develop in HC-110h, but it is also nice to shoot TriX with fewer worries.