Guest PhotoWebb.co.uk Posted April 9, 2009 Share #1 Posted April 9, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) I am a total film novice and recently purchase a Leica R5 which I used quite extensively on my trip to Kuala Lumpur last weekend. Never has it been more evident that I am a novice when I realised that I shot 2 rolls of Tri X 400 with the camera set to ISO 100. I know that I need to do what is called a pull process but am unsure if I can expect to get decent results pulling this film by two stops (if that is indeed the solution). I think I have some good images on the film and am hopeful that I can get them off! Can anyone help please? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted April 9, 2009 Posted April 9, 2009 Hi Guest PhotoWebb.co.uk, Take a look here Tri X 400 shot at ISO 100 - help please!. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
hunghang Posted April 9, 2009 Share #2 Posted April 9, 2009 Tri-X is quite forgiving, and should be good being pulled by 2 stops.... Have a look at this as an example Flickr: Discussing Pulling Tri-X to 100 in I Shoot Film If you are going to develop the film yourself, I'd suggest reducing the development time by a factor of 1.4 or 1.5 (20% per stop). Good luck, and show us the results!!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MPerson Posted April 9, 2009 Share #3 Posted April 9, 2009 Daniel - Tri-X can take a lot. I shoot it from 100 -1600 (sometimes on the same roll). If you are developing it yourself which developer(s) do you have? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
waileong Posted April 10, 2009 Share #4 Posted April 10, 2009 Daniel - Tri-X can take a lot. I shoot it from 100 -1600 (sometimes on the same roll). If you are developing it yourself which developer(s) do you have? Don't pull. 2 stops not enough to worry about. If you're a newbie, chances are your metering is off, so this could be a blessing in disguise. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanG Posted April 10, 2009 Share #5 Posted April 10, 2009 Shoot another roll at 100 ISO and process it as a test. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
budrichard Posted April 10, 2009 Share #6 Posted April 10, 2009 Shoot another roll at 100 ISO and process it as a test. Absolutely correct! It is a pleasure to read a Post from someone that both understands photography and problem solving!-Dick Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpattinson Posted April 10, 2009 Share #7 Posted April 10, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Shoot another roll at 100 ISO and process it as a test. shoot another roll, cut it in three sections and process at normal, -1 and -2... then see which one is best Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobey bilek Posted April 10, 2009 Share #8 Posted April 10, 2009 It doesn`t even need to be a full roll. 6 exposures are around 12" of film which you premeasure. I have a stick in my darkroom calibrated in exposures plus leader just for this sort of thing. Use around 35% off your normal time. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcusperkins Posted April 10, 2009 Share #9 Posted April 10, 2009 Tri X is normally best exposed at 320, so having shot it at 100 is not a disaster. If it is processed minus one stop - any professional processing lab will know the timings - you should get good results. However, as usual Alan has offered the best advice - shoot another roll for fun at 100, then process that to see what it looks like, then adjust the timings and process the other two based on the test roll. When I shot a lot of film (primarily T-Max 3200) I regularly used to expose it at 800, sometimes at 400, and pull process accordingly. It produced great negs - very flat, but perfect for printing on high contrast paper. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest PhotoWebb.co.uk Posted April 11, 2009 Share #10 Posted April 11, 2009 I got my local lab to process it and told them I had shot it as ISO 100. I don't know what they did but the negs have come out absolutely perfectly. Thanks all for your help - I was so worried that I had lost two rolls of pics from my trip to Malaysia. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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