under exposed a colour test roll

[NathanJD]

I ran a test roll of Kodak Gold 200 (colour) film past some new lenses yesterday taking the light reading from my DSLR. when i got home i realised i had set the DSLR to under expose by 2 stops. while the pics i took with the digi were dark a one button auto adjustment in lightroom brought them up very nicely.

My question is will i get away with this with my film? i shot a number of images at f5.6 at 1/1000 on an overcast but reasonably bright day and some at f16 at 1/125 so i think i have probably only under exposed by 1 stop maybe at the worst 2 stops.

I don't have much experience with colour film so i'm not sure of it's tolerances.

 

[hans voralberg]

One stop should be ok, two stop is sort of hit and miss depends on condition really.

 

[blazejs]

Ask in your lab to push it 2 steps. 2EV of underexposure might be too much.

 

[NathanJD]

Thank you both - I just realised that i have mixed the roll up with a correctly exposed one that i am taking to be developed today. in the immortal words of Homer Simpson... D'OH! guess i'm just going to have to suck it and see :bang:

 

[oldoc]

I don't shoot as much black and white,as I do color but enough to tell you you need to be within a stop and a half either way, unless you are using something like UC 400. Sunsets can be under by 2 stops with plenty of sky. Personally, I think color has less latitude on the high side. I would use a meter with that M2...for color at least. Do you have one?

 

[NathanJD]

I do now 😀 a beautiful Gossen Luna-pro with leather case and batteries and I can't wait to put it to good use! especially now i have a roll of pretty pricey Ektar 100 loaded in there! Thank you very much once again Michael i am, as they say, over the moon 😉