Jon Taala Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 (edited) Hi All, I currently want to shoot some 16mm Tri-X for an experimental film I'm making. I'm going to do bucket processing, but I want to bucket process as a negative. I keep reading in onine and in other forums here that if you shoot reversal film and want to process as a negative you need to overexpose a little bit when filming. Since I'm shooting this in daylight and the EI for daylight is 200, I was wondering what I should rate my film at. Should I overexpose by 1 stop or 2 stops etc. or would processing it for longer work also? Thanks for the help! Edited August 12, 2014 by Jon Taala Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Sponsor Robert Houllahan Posted August 12, 2014 Site Sponsor Share Posted August 12, 2014 Don't overexpose it too much, even when you run it as Negative it retains the reversal character, I rate it about 2/3 of a stop slower as Neg but that can be compensated for in developing too if you want to rate it as normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Gladstone Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Yeah, I usually just rate it at 200. Tri-x as a negative is going to be contrastier and grainier than it would be as reversal, so sometimes I'll overexpose a stop and pull process a bump. But honestly the difference is pretty minimal. I can't recall if I've ever tried two stops. I feel like I must have at some point. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Gladstone Posted August 12, 2014 Share Posted August 12, 2014 Just for reference, here's some tri-x I rated 200 and pushed processed about 1 stop to compensate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Taala Posted August 13, 2014 Author Share Posted August 13, 2014 Thanks guys! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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