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As an example of how much you can overexpose colour negative film and still get a usable image. The following were on AgfaVista Plus 200ASA (Poundland Film) with a Yashica Electo 35 GTN. Unfortunately at some point in my bag the lens had been knocked from AUTO to FLASH (and I didn't check), so I shot a whole roll at 1/30s at f/1.7 
And it wasn't a 1/30s kind of day.
Luckily I managed to recover it (mostly) in scanning, the first three are example from that roll, the last one was from the next roll when I realised what I'd done (so was AUTO exposed).
(And all the time the overexposure light kept going off and I kept ignoring it, thinking it was trying to get 1/2000s )
BT Tower, Fitzrovia, London
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London
Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London
Senate House, AKA "The Ministry of Truth", Bloomsbury, London
The colours in the overexposed roll had a blue cast, but otherwise could be recovered. Given that they were something like 5 - 7 stops overexposed I was quite suprised, some of the other Tavistock Square photos have a very dreamy out of focus element.
And it wasn't a 1/30s kind of day.Luckily I managed to recover it (mostly) in scanning, the first three are example from that roll, the last one was from the next roll when I realised what I'd done (so was AUTO exposed).
(And all the time the overexposure light kept going off and I kept ignoring it, thinking it was trying to get 1/2000s )
BT Tower, Fitzrovia, London
Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London
Tavistock Square, Bloomsbury, London
Senate House, AKA "The Ministry of Truth", Bloomsbury, London
The colours in the overexposed roll had a blue cast, but otherwise could be recovered. Given that they were something like 5 - 7 stops overexposed I was quite suprised, some of the other Tavistock Square photos have a very dreamy out of focus element.
