Push/Pull Processing; A Question

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I've been a bit of a dozy beggar and shot a roll of Rollei Retro 400 on my Oly Trip set at 200 asa. My question is twofold, firstly would this need push processing? and secondly what effect would this have on the finished image?

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Andy

Oh, and thirdly is 200 to 400 one stop or two? I should know these things really but I have a mind that stores virtually no information at all.....:cuckoo:
 
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Pull 1 stop, although you may actually find it works better as it is depending what you've shot!
 
Thanks Alan, the main shots are at the railway station so they are probably going to be dark anyway. These are the ones for the TP postcard thread so I'd like them to be right.

Andy
 
Should be fine. Just check the massive dev chart. I would expect less grain etc, as Alan has said.
 
I reckon you'll be completely fine - a B&W negative film can tolerate one stop overexposure easily.
 
Cheers guys. In the post it goes,

Andy
 
As said it should be able to tolerate 1 stop of overexposure fine - on the other hand I'm wondering whether my roll of Acros will be able to withstand 2 1/2. Due to buying a lens with a stuck aperture from Rocky cameras, what I thought was f8 or f9.5 was actually f4 all the time as it couldn't stop down! At least I only took 5 shots with it before I found out.
 
s162216 said:
As said it should be able to tolerate 1 stop of overexposure fine - on the other hand I'm wondering whether my roll of Acros will be able to withstand 2 1/2.
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I don't have much technical experience with it (Acros is my ISO100 film but I don't like the way it renders in T-Max Dev so I don't care for it much), but that would basically be like shooting it at ISO25. This thread on APUG seems to indicate people who have been happy with it at 25/50:

http://www.apug.org/forums/forum37/85688-pulling-acros-100-a.html

Might be worth pulling it to ISO50, relying on the pull process for the first stop of overexposure and the flexibility of B&W negative film to compensate for the second stop. Who knows, you may even prefer the results! :clap:
 
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