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Response to Delta 100 for publishing?

from John Hicks (jbh@magicnet.net)
Just have the lab develop the film normally.

A useful property of chromgenic films is that if you give them more exposure, not only do you get lower printing contrast and more shadow detail, you get finer grain, and you have lots of "overexposure latitude" to work with.

While you could pull-process the film, it would most likely decrease contrast too much and, assuming you're having a commercial lab develop the film, be unjustifiably expensive.

A process change would be justified if you're trying to get to a higher speed, say, EI 1600; in that case the increased contrast obtained by pushing the film can relieve some printing headaches.

(posted 8330 days ago)

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