I cannot recommend these high enough. I've been experimenting over the last year or so with Foma cine ortho 400 and Fomapan 100 negative in the 8mm format in a a couple of different 1960s cameras - Sankyo 8CM and Canon Zoom 8.
You can see some of the results on my Youtube channel. Bear in mind these are all hand/home processed in an old Lomo tank, and then scanned on a cheap home scanner with inversion and a little brightness/contrast adjustment.
What I found is that the Ortho 400 allowed me to film in an old church, where I previously had trouble with Tri-X in super 8. Surprisingly the grain wasn't bad in the 8mm format. The Fomapan cine 100 is truly magnificent stuff. Enough latitude to permit quite low light shooting, especially in the Canon with it's f1.4 lens, but not so fast that I can't use it in bright daylight.
There's also some shots on FPP BW100 film on my Youtube, which certainly works as a film but I find it isn't as good as the Foma. Too much halation and grain...but still a viable film.
I am having a blast. These films aren't expensive and I can process them in ID-11 or Microphen, scan at home and invert at home. On one occasion I had some footage from a concert up on social media on the same day as the concert! It finished at 5pm, I had the footage up before 11pm.
https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC48HCP6_Nc3VWzDI8UvYStA/videos/upload?filter=[]&sort={"columnType"%3A"date"%2C"sortOrder"%3A"DESCENDING"%7D
You can see some of the results on my Youtube channel. Bear in mind these are all hand/home processed in an old Lomo tank, and then scanned on a cheap home scanner with inversion and a little brightness/contrast adjustment.
What I found is that the Ortho 400 allowed me to film in an old church, where I previously had trouble with Tri-X in super 8. Surprisingly the grain wasn't bad in the 8mm format. The Fomapan cine 100 is truly magnificent stuff. Enough latitude to permit quite low light shooting, especially in the Canon with it's f1.4 lens, but not so fast that I can't use it in bright daylight.
There's also some shots on FPP BW100 film on my Youtube, which certainly works as a film but I find it isn't as good as the Foma. Too much halation and grain...but still a viable film.
I am having a blast. These films aren't expensive and I can process them in ID-11 or Microphen, scan at home and invert at home. On one occasion I had some footage from a concert up on social media on the same day as the concert! It finished at 5pm, I had the footage up before 11pm.
https://studio.youtube.com/channel/UC48HCP6_Nc3VWzDI8UvYStA/videos/upload?filter=[]&sort={"columnType"%3A"date"%2C"sortOrder"%3A"DESCENDING"%7D
