On Nov 18, 2005, at 1:33 AM, David Mann wrote:
I've been doing some more learning-the-hard-way. Today's lesson is
that when you shoot neg film to be cross-processed in E6,
overexpose it by a few stops. If I'd done some research prior to
shooting I'd have had better results. The film looked completely
unexposed but I could just make out a few details if I held it up
to very bright light, so I decided to try scanning it anyway.
I was actually surprised that the scanner was able to pull anything
out of the film. The red channel was virtually non-existent but
green & blue were both OK.
The directory is "xp2" ... I presume that means "experiment 2" rather
than the film XP2? Otherwise, I can't imagine why you'd cross-process
XP2 film in E6 chemistry. ??
Here are the three frames I scanned, which have all been processed
quite heavily. The first is the only one that I didn't desaturate
because it seemed to take weird colours quite well, and I was
having difficulty trying to make a reasonable B&W conversion.
Frame 4 (~100kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_4.html
Frame 7 (~80kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_7.html
Frame 9 (~90kb):
http://www.digistar.com/~dmann/temp/xp2/xp2_9.html
All three are pretty darn good. It's amazing what a scanner can pull
out of underexposed film. The optimized processing for scanning is a
slightly thin, flat negative. The negatives I've scanned that look
the best would not print well without a lot of effort in an enlarger
and wet lab.
Godfrey
