“Color film pushing disaster” what a nice title for a punk song or for a B-movie, isn’t it?
I was at a squat to see Darko play, they kick ass live, between other support act there were also the SOCS, great Bluesy driven Punk Rock from italy! In my bag I had my Yashica FX-3 Super 2000 loaded with a roll of Agfa Vista 400.
Well, I had already pushed the Vista 400 to 1600 ISO (as you can see HERE) and I decided to try and push it to the extreme: 3200 ISO.
I know that the “rule of thumb” of pushing film is to limit it to three stops and no more… But I was a drunk punk at a punk show so: who cares!
In addition to the many things that could go wrong (grain galore and reciprocity failure) the lighting was terrible: soft, diffuse and warm!
Even worse I was using color film so, the colors themselves, will probably go mad or went dull or be gorgeus: this is part of the unpredictability of pushing/pulling film!
Not happy with the possible defeat and having to finish the roll I’ve tried to take some pics at another live show with Red Car Burns (some post and some hardcore that You need to check out!!) and The Twerks (a bit of punk and some powerpop with a topping of 70s).
BTW the lights sucked even this time.
As you can see in the following gallery everything that could go wrong… it did!
Well, thankfully we are in 2016 and we can use our computers to try to recover the images! Again (just like HERE) the B&W is the “great savior” of us poor film enthusiasts. You can see the black and white processed image at the end of this post.
Note: I think I’ll try this extreme pushing of my beloved Agfa 400 with better lighting conditions 😉
Marco Busato 
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