> "Lawrance Lee" wrote: > ... he loads Fuji Press 800 on his camera (happens to be a Nikon F100) > and then changes the film speed setting to 400. > So to me, that's like overexposing the film by 1 stop or so. > Why is this practice done? I understand that when you push film in this > fashion, you need to tell the labs that you've done it so that they can > process at the correct exposure. But I really don't understand why > overexposing film would be good. Help!
Hi Lawrance, First, you need to get your terms correct: PUSHING = underexpose, compensate with increased processing PULLING = overexpose, compensate with decreased processing The correct way to do this with your EOS 30 camera is to twiddle the ASA number using the "ISO" setting. It is important to do this rather than by applying exposure compensation, since only ambient metering is affected, but not the flash exposure. This is different for some older EOS cameras (like my EOS 1000FN), where applying exposure compensation affects both ambient and flash exposure together. I shall leave the discussion of the relative merits of overexposing C-41 processed film and rescuing on the RA-4 print for experts on other forums. Cheers Julian Loke P.S. With a little effort, almost any topic can be ON TOPIC :-) * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
