Pisa and Marina Superpan 200 film (pushed)

[Orio]

These come from a roll of Rollei Superpan 200 pushed to 800 in TMax developer in order to make up for my
exposure mistakes (forgot the camera on fixed 1/2000 sec. shutter time...)
I could salvage about half of the roll... as you can see, as a result of pushed development noise is high and
detail was lost at both ends of the histogram.
Zeiss Ikon camera, various lenses (mostly Snapshot-Skopar)

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#12

[patrickh]

For obvious reasons they have that "old time" feel. A treat



patrickh

[skida]

[Orio]

Thanks. The TMax developer did a good job with this difficult task. It is a costly developer, but worth the cost.
I am still left with the curiosity of testing this film in normal condition. It appears it might be a good film.
The superpanchromatic character makes it interesting for photographing people.

[Katastrofo]

Not bad at all, really like the first! This is much better than getting a handful
of bull-puckie like I have on occasion.

Really like 11, too

[fish4570]

pics have evening glow about them ...

[ForenSeil]

Good series. I love this film.

Except the massive grain the developer made a better job than I expected

[Farside]

Considering the difficulties, the pics turned out with a certain period feel. Grain was 'in' in the 60s

[Orio]

Thanks guys, I am happy to have salvaged this roll because I knew there were some good takes in it.
From some of the takes (notably #1 and #3 and a couple of others) I was expecting a lot also before developing,
because the light was so good when I took them.
Other shots instead were a surprise, especially the backlight shots #6 and #11 were a pleasant surprise. I expected
very contrasted images, instead they turned out just about right and the moderate flaring adds to them instead of subtracting.
Too bad only for the sunray streak in #11 falling on a bad spot.
Sometimes I wonder how such shots would turn out if I could use a Biogon 25.
In general, I must remember to shoot backlight more with film. I recently grew basically avoiding backlight takes, because backlight looks terrible on digital.
On film, it's another story.