EI2000 with Plus-X is pretty good without fogging, but grain is fairly
large. i have used that on occasion when stuck shooting sports indoors with
slow lenses. high school student budgets go only so far. i'd have to look up
tables that i probably have thrown away to verify the times but i mostly
would do D76 undiluted and some extended development. note that EI2000 isn't
real speed gain since the shadows have lost too much detail to reproduce the
full tonal range, but under moderately low contrast gym lights, it wasn't
objectionable. if you want full tonal range reproduction, you probably need
to stick to EI400 or lower with ordinary developers. i never had access to
the exotic stuff.
Herb...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Cassino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 5:17 PM
Subject: Re: How far can you push it? (B&W film that is...)
Thanks, Herb - it sounds like you were able to get a 6 stop increase in
film speed, so that gives me an idea of how far things can go.
