Not sure about the graininess, as 1/3 stop barely affects anything, but it
sounds
like a sucky lab did the prints. 'Round here, even a decent one hour place can
correct for the tungsten off-balance yellowishness.
One-hour places are also great to get just your C-41 negs done if you intend to
print them yourself, and for a cost of about $1.99. (Many people printing their
own
color negs, get the film processed at a lab, but routinely overpay by bringing
them
to a custom lab. The prices are rediculous for no added benefit.)
Larry
atk@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Hi -- I guess I'm a bit inexperienced and could use a little advice. I took
> a roll of 800asa superia at a wedding (was going to use supra but couldn't get
> a roll on short notice). By 'accident' I underexposed the images by 1/3 an f
> stop (was going to over expose by 1/3 but goofed -- don't laugh). Anyways the
> images (even as 4x6 prints) came back horribly graining and the negatives are
> some what thin. Also the images are very yellowish. This was taken with
> natural
> light in a chapel (some sun but also incandescent bulbs). I guess this
> explains
> the 'yucky' yellow. (I wasn't allowed to use a flash).
>
> I have never used superia 800 before but I have shot several 'test' rolls of
> both supra and superia 400. While I found supra 400 to be somewhat intolerant
> of both under and over exposure, I found 400 to behave ok even under exposed
> 1/2 fstop so I was very surprise at how thin/grainy the 800 film results.
> Should I have had the 800 roll pushed given that I realized it was 1/3 fstop
> under-exposed before development?
>
> Anyways, if I can't use a flash any suggestions on what i can do better next
> time to reduce the yellow and obtain better details/less grain? Would using a
> faster film but over exposing a little produce less visible grain in the
> image ?
>
> thanks
> Alan
>
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