Shot at 200 developed at 400?

Don_ih

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When I've shot at night with over-exposed film (I always shoot CineStill 800T at night rated at 400), I've never even compensated for reciprocity

Rating the film speed 1 stop slower doubles the exposure time, which might be enough to compensate for reciprocity, in exposures that are not too long to begin with.
 

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Thank you Don for your concise explanation.
 

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For color negatives and black & white negative film has a wide enough exposure latitude to handle using half the ISO speed.
  • Pros: more shadow detail
  • Cons: possible blowing out of the highlights especially the sky
 

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Those are great examples of gross overexposure working well. Can I ask what is your digital method, scanner or digital camera capture to convert your negatives. For these over-exposed shots was significant additional manipulation of the scanned files necessary?
 

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Being away from film for so long (I was an APUG member before the name change), I just recently "discovered" CineStill 800T and very much like the now overused effect seen on light sources, especially neon lights. Still have not bought any CineStill film but got rid of my Pentax Spot Meters years ago. Now have several small and medium sized Seikonic incident/reflective meters but not spot. For my future night time shooting (live only a few miles from the Santa Monica Pier which will have many shooting opportunities in the Summer), which will have both darkness and light sources, I was just planning to reflective meter at the light/dark transition zone and add or subtract stops of exposure as per my preference and see how things turn out. How important is it to spot meter if most print films like Portra have good latitude for overexposure. Would CineStill 800T have similar wide over-exposure latitude as that would be my night film preference.
 
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