Plus-X Change?

[FastFilms]

Thanks Nigel.


Michael.

[Actor]

You can still use your built in meter cause the cartridges are notched to tell the camera what the ASA is.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not necessarily. My Elmo has a single notch detector pin that is 0.55 inch above the locator pin. The notch is simply detected. It's width is not measured. A notch 0.5 inch wide or less will not be detected. Any notch 0.6 inch or wider will be detected.

I assume this means that in this camera all films simply default to ASA 40 or ASA 160. Plus-X would be overexposed by 2/3 stop. Since it is generally better to underexpose reversal, rather than overexpose it, this is not good.

[cameraguy]

Originally posted by FastFilms:
I have some plus-x that I shot using the older speeds (40/50 asa). Can I still have these rolls processed using the newer chemicals?
Nigel,
Can you help me on this one?

Thanks,
Michael.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You can have the lab pull one stop in processing in the new plus-x chemicals if you shot at 50.