marcum@rhino.UUCP (Alan M. Marcum) (09/01/84)
Many thanks to all who responded to my query. Various people
mentioned pushing normal ASA 400 Ektachrome to 800 and 1600, with
processing available from Kodak. I've done this before (pushing
to 800, and going through Kodak), with okay, but not spectacular
results. Also mentioned was Westside Processing in Santa Monica
who "even went so far as to say that if I pushed it [Ektachrome
400] to the twilight zone (3200) they would like to process it."
Also mentioned was Kodak 5294 film, at ASA 640, that can be
pushed to 1200 (this is a motion picture film), and 3M 640T
pushed to 1200 (this is tungsten balanced, though).
The fastest I've found is a Kodak 5020 Professional Ektachrome
P800/1600 (EES 135-36 was ~$10). The folks where I bought it
(Keeble and Shuchat, in Palo Alto -- good folks from all I've
seen there!) claimed it could be shot and developed at 400, 800,
1600, or 3200 -- just tell them at what speed it was shot.
I'll post to the net the results of my forays over San Francisco.
I'm currently planning on shooting this stuff at 1600; I have an
f1.4 lens available should I want something that fast.
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Alan M. Marcum Fortune Systems, Redwood City, California
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