Cross processing Astia?

Any hints? I've got plenty of film coming but I'm like some
starting points? I've seen everything from over expose two stops to under
expose one. Somebody claimed never use fill flash. Some talk about
pull/pushing the processing.

Thanks

Nick

I've cross processed Astia from a Holga. From both cloudy days where the
resulting negs were a little under-exposed to bright sunny days where they
came out quite dense. Got useable images from both. The dense ones were
probably better, with nice high contrast and saturation.

Simon.


"Nick Zentena" wrote in message
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Any hints? I've got plenty of film coming but I'm like some
starting points? I've seen everything from over expose two stops to under
expose one. Somebody claimed never use fill flash. Some talk about
pull/pushing the processing.

Thanks

Nick

mr. chip wrote:
I've cross processed Astia from a Holga. From both cloudy days where the
resulting negs were a little under-exposed to bright sunny days where they
came out quite dense. Got useable images from both. The dense ones were
probably better, with nice high contrast and saturation.


Sounds like a little over exposure then. 100EI would fit your descriptions
if I understand the Holga [F/8 1/100] So I'll try bracketting around 64 to
start. Thanks

Nick

When I have cross processed, I have either shot at it's rated speed (ISO
100) and pushed 2 stops at developing. Or, you can just over expose by
2 stops, so EI 25. The lattitude either way is very narrow, so
bracketing may still be in order.

JR