Frank Theriault wrote:
> I didn't like Neopan's grey tones at all. I found it far too "contrasty".
> Maybe it was the difficult lighting conditions (but isn't that why you use
> 1600 film?), but Neopan gave me all whites and blacks, with very little grey
> in between. And quite frankly the pushed Kodaks weren't much grainier than
> the Fuji.
The lab you took the film to processed the Neopan at the wrong time.
Neopan 1600 has a spectacularly short processing time (in Studional it's
2.5 minutes compared to 4 for TMax). Thus, you ended up with a
contrasty, grainy neg. They probably pushed it a stop or more (and if
they processed it like TMax 3200 they would have pushed it as much as
three stops!).
Neopan 1600 is a spectacular film, but not many people know how to
process it, despite the endless free data from Fuji on it.
-Aaron
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