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Hi guys.
I've never taken photos as pushing ISO +1, +2....
Does anyone take photos pushing ISO +1, +2...etc and develop it in store?
 
I do.

For color work, I have the store do it, for B&W... Well, it's always a fun experiment. I've pushed Delta 3200 all the way up to 12,800 for indoor church ceremony (wedding with no flash permitted) work, with excellent results (Medium Format).

There are tradeoffs, and heavy experimentation is the rule.
 
I do, occasionally, if I have no other choice; pushing films will give you more contrast, larger grain, and the danger of blocked shadows and burned highlights, but hey, it is better than getting no picture at all; I do my own developing, though, never tried it with a store.

Roman
 
The question I think many of us have is if you push a C41 film (colour or B&W), do you have to tell the processor or not?

Thanks,

David
 
iMacfan said:
The question I think many of us have is if you push a C41 film (colour or B&W), do you have to tell the processor or not?

Thanks,

David
I always tell mine! That way they compensate for it in the developing process!
 
I came away with underexposed C41 film more than once :)
But the higher the ISO the less latitude you have and shaddows start to look realy ugly.
If you have a very good lab you can tell them to push your film and as far as I know 1 stop is doable.
 
Well, it gets a little tricky, and it helps to keep in mind that giving a film less exposure than it's intended for (using an EI higher than the ISO) sacrifices detail and tonality in shadowed areas. Of course the highlights and mid-tones get less exposure too, but still sufficient for good pictorial quality.

On the other side of the equation, push development has very little effect on those sacrificed shadows, but boosts density in those areas of the neg that already have the highest densities, the highlights. So the danger here is that the highlights will be sacrificed ("blown") by the overdevelopment.

Ideally, the extra development time should be sufficient only to build the highlight density back to where it would have been had the film been exposed at its ISO rating. While you still will lose some shadow detail, and you may be willing to accept that, at least you won't have the highlights blown too! As wisdom advises, "Expose for the shadows, develop for the highlights."

I'd suggest running a test roll in your intended light at the higher EI, and then having your local lab do "push 1" development to see how it comes out. If that zaps the highlights as well as losing the shadows, then next time you could ask for "push 1/2" if they're willing to do that. My nearby pro lab will do custom pushes on request, but any push instructions need to be written in the customer's hand and initialled.
 
Often I have pushed NPZ 2 stops. Exposed as ISO 2000. It works, but your lab has to push it. Or you getting nothing out of it.
 
NPZ is amazing stuff, and I believe EI 2000 might actually work. Though I expose it at EI 500...
 
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