Alex #2 (Ilford Delta 3,200 pushed to 12,500)

Amazing tonalities and grain, nice job.

No, there's something all wrong here. A film which is rated at say 1600 at best with DDX and is now 3 stops under at 12,500, so where are all the featureless shadows?

This should encourage a lot to use D3200 for the first time and current users to risk 12,500 where the light demands it. They don't look like they have a lot to lose except their expectation of disappointment

@pentaxuser. The only downside I can see is that the development is 17 minutes in DD-X @ 20C which is a bit of a bore. I also took some other pictures in bright sun and they must be several stops overexposed. I knew they would be very overexposed but it was just for fun. In fact they printed (slowly through a dense negative that looked a bit like a Daguerreotype) and one needed to be printed at 00. I may post them. They are not great but show what can be done. When I consider that photos I put effort into getting "correct" can be so dull and yet playing around can get pleasing results......infuriating or great depending on how you look at it. I was not expecting much from this battered and very old camera or from pushing a film so far.

I would post a picture of the negatives but I cannot seem to attach a picture to this thread. You can see how pushed the film is from the black splodges caused by small light leaks when the film was unloaded and not wound quite tightly enough.

@scheimfluger_77 Thank you. Years and years ago, when a student (not in any arts related subject), I took a series of portraits using natural light from a window. The inspiration was the Dutch artist Vermeer and his use of natural light (e.g The Girl with the Pearl Earring). Flash seems to spoil pictures when I use it and this camera can't do flash sync anyway. I think the brain expects the shadows from natural light and it just looks more "natural" but it is very easily too much contrast so the light has to be diffused in some way (in this case by the awning above). When I tried the indoor photos years ago the films were too slow or unpleasant when push processed.