PMK for massive overexposure?

[Sparky]

Hi - I picked up some PMK today in order to try and tame the highlights of a roll of FP4 I mistakenly shot with a 3 stop overexposure. I know that I screwed up - and yes, perhaps the ideal neg is no longer obtainable. But I was thinking that a little PMK and reduced dev time might help out a bit. Any ideas on this?

 

[noseoil]

I would be inclined to use normal development and open up the light when printing the film. Depending on the scene, scene brightness range and other lighting factors, a reduced development will just cut down on contrast and yield a flat image. If you needed to do an extremely reduced development for contrast control, this is what you would do with exposure (I did say extreme). Look at the bright side, you will have nice, beefy shadow values and pyro will deal with the high values so they aren't lost. PMK will effectively cut your film speed in half, so the overexposure won't be nearly as bad as you might think. tim

 

[jim appleyard]

By all means, give the PMK a try, it may just do the job for you, but can you re-shoot the images? That would be the way to go.

 

[light leak]

I agree with Tim. Assuming the film was rated at box speed under an "average" brightness range, with PMK you're probably not as far off as you think. I too would develop normally (for me that's 11 min. with FP4+ in 120). I would expect the negatives to be a little heavy but easily printable.

Jonathan