Clipping, pushing and pulling

Charles Hood · Issue 1, Aug 2001 · pp. 22–23

Products mentioned: Fuji Velvia, Fuji MS100/1000

Many years ago I proudly returned back to the UK from a trip to the Red Sea with twenty or so correctly exposed rolls of celluloid, or so I thought. I handed them all to the local E6 lab and two and half-hours later I was starring in total disbelief at film after film of overexposed images. About half of the films appeared to have been over exposed by exactly the same amount of what I judged to be 1 1/2 stops. What had gone wrong? Disappointment turned to anger. If half were OK then the others should be OK. It must be something to do with the process- ing. No, they were all processed together. Then this horrible feeling inside me thought back to the trip. One day I had tried a 50ASA film (Fuji Velvia had just arrived on the market) instead of my usual 160ASA. Being in the days where I had to set the ASA manually I must have left it set at 50ASA when I then returned to my usual stock. Ret…