To overexpose color negative film. Pros and cons.

[DREW WILEY]

My favorite Far Side cartoon might be the one where the husband is in the darkroom developing his shot of Bigfoot along with Elvis, plus a UFO, when his wife suddenly opens the door carrying his plate of lunch.

 

[wiltw]

How on Earth could anybody (even someone with no photographic experience) think that was a good Idea? It says to open in total darkness only, right on the box.

Folks have long ago proven that they simply do not READ...why print journalism is a vanishing profession, and computer hardware guys stopped providing printed owner manual sets.

 

[Spektrum]

Unfortunately, this is a common problem in modern societies. It affects young people, but not exclusively. I worked about 10 years ago as a specialist consultant at a large company. A woman working in administration sent me an email asking how to do something. I replied in a long email, step by step with detailed instructions – it was like a tutorial for dummies. A few days later, she sent me the same email asking how to do it. She didn't even bother to rewrite it; she just copied and pasted her previous email. Surprised, I went to the company and discovered that when she saw the long email, she didn't even read it.

People not only don't read longer texts. The same applies to all video tutorials. On YouTube, videos longer than 10 minutes have significantly lower views.

 

[arturo_rs]

Thank you for all your comments. Next time I'll shoot with bracketing mode, make copies with the enlarger and compare the results.

 

[wiltw]

Thank you for all your comments. Next time I'll shoot with bracketing mode, make copies with the enlarger and compare the results.

As @MrBill said, " we essentially could not see any color differences between exposures ranging from about 1 f-stop underexposed to about 3 or 4 f-stops overexposed"
Similar findings have been gotten, and stories published by major photography publications over past decades, about exposure latitude of color neg.

 

[jmrochester]

As @MrBill said, " we essentially could not see any color differences between exposures ranging from about 1 f-stop underexposed to about 3 or 4 f-stops overexposed"
Similar findings have been gotten, and stories published by major photography publications over past decades, about exposure latitude of color neg.

That may be true of some color neg stocks but not all. As Mr Bill has described in detail here and in another current thread this generalization applies to films that have been manufactured to very tight tolerances.

 

[Alan Edward Klein]

Unfortunately, this is a common problem in modern societies. It affects young people, but not exclusively. I worked about 10 years ago as a specialist consultant at a large company. A woman working in administration sent me an email asking how to do something. I replied in a long email, step by step with detailed instructions – it was like a tutorial for dummies. A few days later, she sent me the same email asking how to do it. She didn't even bother to rewrite it; she just copied and pasted her previous email. Surprised, I went to the company and discovered that when she saw the long email, she didn't even read it.

People not only don't read longer texts. The same applies to all video tutorials. On YouTube, videos longer than 10 minutes have significantly lower views.

I tend not to watch (or read) long exposés about anything online. You should make your point succinctly. Or provide sections for your videos so you can go to the part that interests you. At my age, I also refuse to buy green bananas.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Up to ca. 1.5-2 stops overexposure not a whole lot of influence other than longer exposure times during printing. Beyond that, color crossover tends to start to become more of an issue and overall image quality deteriorates.



I don't associate these with overexposure; in fact, the opposite.

That is what I have experienced and read. There is no advantage to under or over exposing. Your time would be better spent learning the Zone System.

 

[brbo]

Just a note to anyone reading this thread that learning Zone System when dealing with colour negative film is not exactly time well spent...

 

[DREW WILEY]

Well, even AA tried that. By the time he contorted and amputated his Zone System enough to make partial sense with color film, it wasn't the Zone System anymore.