It all depends on the gamma you develop your negs for. With a compensating developer it would not have been a problem to record a 9 zone contrast range if you whould have chosen a low gamma. For example Rodinal 1:100 would have easily done the job. In fact with a high speed film such as HP5 you can record an even larger range, which is commonly used in high contrast indoor scenes.(posted 8431 days ago)