Classic Pan 400 shot at 3200

I have a boat load of Classic Pan 400 35mm in 36 exp rolls. I have yet to get a negative with this film I was happy with irrespective of what developer I used or what asa I shot it at. But I got them really cheap at the original APUG conference in Toronto so who cares if I waste a few dozen rolls

So I figured what the heck, shoot it at 3200 asa, go for tons of grain, and develop it in HC110 1:100 semi-stand for 1 hour.

Well guess what? Besides a lot of base fog (due to age of film I suppose) I actually got some good negs. Let the bells chime and whatever else that crazy rooster use to say.

I will scan a few and post them to this thread. Probably tomorrow. They are images of nothing in particular, just doing a test so don't expect anything suitable for MOMA display.

Here are some quick scans. I used an old Canon AE1 in manual mode. The photo of Abby the cat was taken with the FD 85mm lens wide open and the rest taken with the FD 17mm fisheye lens. The shot through the kitchen window was taken with the 50mm I believe. As you can see the tonality is pretty decent actually and the grain while pronounced not altogether horrible. The scans were sharp but the images themselves seemed a bit soft. Will have to do some additional experimenting to see what's up with that.

All in all I would say the experiment yielded "acceptable" results. I think the film at this asa would provide a gritty vibe to shots that would benefit from such a thing.

I still have 3 boxes of 10x8 Classic Pan 200, it's a great film based on pre-WWII Kodak technology with Eastern European modernisation. The Forte factory was originally a Kodak coating facility set up by Kodak Ltd (UK) to coat the companies new emulsions just before WWII, these included Pantomatic X, Plus X, Super XX and Tri X, these were a response to Ilford's ground breaking new emulsions Fine Grain Panchromatic and Hypersensitive Panchromatic which have evolved to FP4 & HP5 and the + versions.

The film's capable of excellent results

Ian

They all look pretty good to me. Pity about those high winds you get in Canada, bending the trees. Mind you the winds are not the only extreme thing in Canada. The first time I saw one of your large deer, I asked a Canadian what it was and he said: "That, Jock, is a Moose." and I said that hopefully I would not come across one of your cats

pentaxuser

We call moose "swamp donkeys" because, well they like swamps and they look like donkeys. But in all fairness to the donkeys they are probably smarter.

Eric Rose said:

Besides a lot of base fog

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Have you tried this? ( https://www.photrio.com/forum/threa...ts-of-age-fog-in-b-w-films-and-papers.161268/) I'd be interested in others can reproduce his results which look pretty impressive.
I wanted to try it but I don't have any expired film presently.

I'm not one to mess around with chemicals. If I can't buy it already made up in a store it's not going to get into my darkroom. Sorry, just lazy I guess.