Re: push/pull colour neg film?

[Joseph Tainter]

At the Viking Ship Museum in Oslo last September I shot several rolls of 
NPZ 800. The wood of the ships is dark and the display is dark, lit 
mainly by side windows. So I shot the film at 1600 and had it processed 
normally. In other words, it was a one-stop underexposure. The result 
was a great increase in grain in parts of the ships with uniform tones.

A few days later, in the historical museum in Copenhagen, I did the same 
thing with Fuji Press 800. The result was about the same.

I also shot Provia 400F at 1600 and had it processed with a two-stop 
push. The grain results were comparable.

I did get acceptable images this way, some even rather nice. One or two 
are nice enough that you might see them on PUG eventually. The main 
drawback is that, once scanned, I cannot sharpen them to print large 
enlargements. The grain gets sharpened too much. I can reduce the grain 
with Digital GEM, but then sharpening just puts it right back.

Joe