pensacolaphoto Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Hi,Today I made a mistake and exposed Kodak Portra 160NC at 8.0/125 when the "correct" exposure should have been closer to 16/125-16/250. How does this film handle a 2-stop overexposure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LenMarriott Posted June 14, 2003 Share Posted June 14, 2003 Raid. Short answer, VERY forgiving. See my answer to this post in the Medium format forum. LM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pensacolaphoto Posted June 14, 2003 Author Share Posted June 14, 2003 Thanks. I will try to be careful next time. Raid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl smith Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 Portra is VERY forgiving. All of it. I was shooting 400NC without realizing that the last person who handled my camera (a friend) had dialed in -2 stops exposure compensation. I had the ISO set 2/3 of a stop high, so in all from the standard 400 it received -1 1/3 stops exposure (even though it was 2 stops less than I wanted). It came out, just very grainy. If I recall portra should handle 2 stops over exposure better than 2 stops under, by a long shot. Although you'll have different problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steve_dunn2 Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 <p>Just about any colour negative film should handle +2 better than -2.</p> <p>Two stops over likely won't give results as good as you'd get from a correct exposure, but you're probably OK. Hopefully you weren't counting on retaining lots of detail in highlights ...</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carl smith Posted June 15, 2003 Share Posted June 15, 2003 no kidding steve. just a little goofin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pensacolaphoto Posted June 15, 2003 Author Share Posted June 15, 2003 It was a beach portrait of a family, and I don't want to mess up the images. I hope to be able to save the film and get some nice prints of the family and sea oats and the ocean. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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