>>3985416Yes we have been spoiled by scanning. You can resurrect any sort of negative. The auto exposure and manual histogram tweaking can pull a lifelike image out of the weakest negatives. I think the desire to push color film is primarily an internet age phenomenon, and a retro-action of having adjustable iso on digital cameras. Look at the great photographers of the 20th century, lighting and metering was their greatest concern. Watch the Annie Leibovitz documentary from the nineties. She’s there on site for hours adjusting the lighting, metering, poring over a dozen Polaroids before they even shoot, and then she shoots through 20 backs of 6x7. Do you think she pushed color film? No! Because she’s concerned with best results, not fucking around. Look at the data sheets for portra and ektar. There is no section for push processing. In fact they advise you to over expose under certain lighting conditions. Look at the data sheets for tri-x or tmax, right there at the end they give you guidelines for push processing, because it works for BW film. Back to the color data sheets we see right there at the top “Kodak proprietary Targeted Advanced Development Accelerators” TADA! Color negative processing is a race to the finish. It’s designed to just work, but that is contingent on it being properly exposed. I think we forget that photography is the record of light.
