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Put a roll of Colour 400 ASA film in my camera and after 16 shots I realised I forgot to set the ASA on Camera to 400. It which was set to ASA 200, is it going to come out over exposed :(
 
What did you do with the rest of the roll?

If you shot it at 400 too, then you may be able to ask the processing company to pull-process it to 200. Some will do this, others won't.

If you changed to 400 half way through the roll, then you'll have to decide which shots are more important.

That said, with negative film there's a fair bit of latitude, so 1 stop out may be over exposed by still OK. If it's slide, then correct exposure is more critical.
 
Musicman said:
What did you do with the rest of the roll?

If you shot it at 400 too, then you may be able to ask the processing company to pull-process it to 200. Some will do this, others won't.
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That worked reasonably well for my roll of Kodak Elitechrome...
 
Basically yes the shots taken at 200 iso setting will come out overexposed by one full stop but discuss what has happened at the lab and they may be able to pull them back.

Even if you have shot the rest of the film at 400, you may well be ok if the lab knows what it's doing and you explain what you have done ...besides as said, negative film generally has a reasonable amount of lattitude so I personally reckon you will end up with reasonable results either way.
 
It'll be completely fine. A lot of people shoot with one stop overexposure on purpose! Colour negative film has enough latitude, so it can take the deviance.
 
I really wouldn't worry about it too much. Colour negative film has a fair amount of latitude and should be able to cope with one stop of overexposure. Colour reversal (slide) film is another matter.
 
freecom2 said:
It'll be completely fine. A lot of people shoot with one stop overexposure on purpose! Colour negative film has enough latitude, so it can take the deviance.
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+1 will be fine, colour neg as stated is very flexible as its basically B&W white technology, dont try it with reversal (slide) film though, if you do set the wrong Iso with slide film then shoot the whole roll at that rating and push or pull accordingly and expect the dynamic range to be compressed and the slides likely to have a bit more contrast than normal (if pushed).

Damn too slow :)

Matt.
 
+1 to don't try it with reversal film. I lost a lot of shots this weekend due to overexposed slides.
 
Snapper73 said:
Just got the film back and it came out great.
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Excellent news:thumbs:....at least now you know it's not such a big deal although i wouldn't recommend setting your iso incorrectly as a matter of course! :D
 
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