December 2023

I’ll confess that in general, I’m a box speed guy, meaning that I customarily shoot films at the speed they’re rated at on the product packaging, whether that’s an ISO test result (where a film is expressly labeled as something like “ISO 100”), or whether it’s an EI — an exposure index — which is basically the film manufacturer’s recommended shooting speed, but which has not been subjected to the actual ISO testing procedure to establish its speed. But pushing film, which is intentionally underexposing it and then adjusting development times to compensate, is a popular thing to do. Kodak’s Vision3 motion picture films, which are an increasingly popular choice for still photography use, are rumored to handle pushing quite well, and I decided to see for myself just how well.

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