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Tried pushing a roll of Kodak Portra 400 to 1600 for a dim concert, and the grain is so chunky it looks like static.
I figured the extra stop would save me in that dark Philly venue last month, but my lab scans came back looking like a sandstorm, which taught me that some films just can't handle that kind of push without losing everything. Has anyone else had a film stock completely fall apart when you tried to push it too far?
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craig.grace4d agoMost Upvoted
Ugh, been there. Pushed some Ultramax 400 way too hard once and it just turned to mud. Grain so bad it looked like texture on a video game from the 90s. Some films just have a hard limit. For dark stuff now, I just bite the bullet and use a faster film from the start, like Delta 3200. Pushing color film that far is almost always a bad time.
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rileybarnes4d ago
Pushing Portra that far is a rough lesson to learn. It really does turn into a noisy mess past its limit.
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