I really miss ______ film

DREW WILEY · Mar 7, 2016

Just stir a little bit of Porta into your pot of developer, along with your Ektar and a few crawdads and okra.

Sirius Glass · Mar 7, 2016

Tis Himself said:
Verichrome Pan

That too. I forgot that one.

Roger Cole · Mar 7, 2016

Verichrome was an amazing film from all I've read and seen, but since it wasn't available in 35mm by the time I got into photography, and I couldn't afford a medium format camera until after it was gone, I never really "missed" it and the only roll I ever used was a roll of 127 I put through my mother's old Brownie, which was actually the first roll of film I ever developed. I was...12 I think, maybe 13 at the time.

ColColt · Mar 7, 2016

Color? VPS III either 160 or 400. I used 400 in the 6x7 for weddings and portraits and it was marvelous.

Francis and Kami004a by David Fincher, on Flickr

1L6E6VHF · Mar 7, 2016

Kodachrome 25.
Kodachrome 64 (135 as well as 126)
Ektachrome Lumiere LPP (no "X") Really beautiful, but was around for such a short time. It was born at a time when both Kodak and Fuji were recklessly introducing too many new slide films).
Ektachrome Elite 50 (yes, too yellow, but it was smooth and sharp).
Polaroid type 42 (really sad they never had a type 102).
Polaroid type 107.
Panatomic-X
Verichrome Pan.

Films I wish I could have tried (were I born earlier):
Kodachrome K-11 (1954-61)
Polaroid type 48.

Films that never were:
Technical Pan in 110.
Panatomic-X in 110.
Kodachrome 25 in 110.
Kodachrome X or 64 in 127.

Roger Cole · Mar 7, 2016

VPS III was great in its day, but couldn't hold a candle to modern films like Portra for non-portraits. It WOULD be nice for portraits again, thus my desire for Portrait 160 which would be even better as long as we are naming our druthers.

Darko Pozar · Mar 8, 2016

ColColt said:
Color? VPS III either 160 or 400. I used 400 in the 6x7 for weddings and portraits and it was marvelous.

Francis and Kami004a by David Fincher, on Flickr

Very nice. Just the subtlety this film was able to create. Even in the field, it seemed less "chunky" compared to the results of Portra...softer and delicate with it's colours particularly on skin tones and white bride's dresses.

James Page · Mar 8, 2016

Panatomic X
Plus X
Neopan 400
Neopan 1600

Thank god we still have HP5

railwayman3 · Mar 8, 2016

James Page said:
Panatomic X
Plus X
Neopan 400
Neopan 1600

Thank god we still have HP5

That would be the one film I really would miss ! I remember when I first tried photography as a schoolkid, I had some hopeless results from some cheapy film (probably Woolworths!) and was ready to give up. My Dad gave me a roll of HP5 (it would actually have been HP3 then), saying "try this, you won't go far wrong!"....never looked back, and it definitely saved my interest in the hobby.

Black Dog · Mar 8, 2016

Tis Himself said:
Verichrome Pan

Me too! Also Agfapan and Polaroid 55.

zanxion72 · Mar 8, 2016

I use to miss Panatomic-X but now got me 2x100ft of it and I cannot get happier than that.

A Super Mini

MartinP · Mar 9, 2016

Roger Cole said:
Verichrome was an amazing film from all I've read and seen, but since it wasn't available in 35mm by the time I got into photography, and I couldn't afford a medium format camera until after it was gone, I never really "missed" it and the only roll I ever used was a roll of 127 I put through my mother's old Brownie, which was actually the first roll of film I ever developed. I was...12 I think, maybe 13 at the time.

Verichrome Pan was the first film I used. I didn't do any testing of it, or any comparisons with alternatives, as I was eight at the time and was allowed one roll, plus commercial processing, per month in a Brownie 620 camera (eight shots a month). I still have some negs from back then, maybe I should print them now and see what they look like.

NDKodak · Mar 26, 2016

I miss the cheap rebranded Tri-X from Freestyle. I will also miss the Fuji Peel parts both the FP-3000 and FP-100.

kreeger · Mar 28, 2016

Bob Carnie said:
I miss Ilfomar silver gelatin paper and for the life of me do not know why Simon will not make it again.

Me Three.

Echoing:
35mm Panatomic-X
Verichrome Pan 120 (2 rolls left in the freezer)

Adding:
Type 52 Polaroid 4x5. Great tool for learning to see large format with.

480sparky · Mar 28, 2016

Kodachrome 25.

John_Nikon_F · Mar 29, 2016

Fuji Pro 160C - want Velvia-like color in C41? 160C had it.
T-Max P3200
PKM-25
Portra 400VC and 160VC
Ektar 25 (even though Ektar 100 has the same grain structure - just would be nice not to have to use ND filters to get the shutter speed down enough).

What I really miss is the walk-in refrigerated room at the old Glazer's Camera Supply store. That, and the Nikon display case, filled with a bunch of Nikon film bodies, lenses, etc, back when they had the cameras against the back wall of the store and the supplies, etc, in the middle.

-J

Roger Cole · Mar 29, 2016

John_Nikon_F said:
T-Max P3200

-J

Try Delta 3200 if you haven't. I no longer miss TMZ, the more so since I can get Delta 3200 in 120. Great film.

Black Dog · Mar 29, 2016

kreeger said:
Me Three.

Echoing:
35mm Panatomic-X
Verichrome Pan 120 (2 rolls left in the freezer)

Adding:
Type 52 Polaroid 4x5. Great tool for learning to see large format with.

IIRC because it had Cadmium in it?

RattyMouse · Mar 29, 2016

ColColt said:
Color? VPS III either 160 or 400. I used 400 in the 6x7 for weddings and portraits and it was marvelous.

Francis and Kami004a b

y David Fincher, on Flickr

Wow!!!

RattyMouse · Mar 29, 2016

Reala 100, Astia 100F.....good lord what a loss..............

John_Nikon_F · Mar 29, 2016

Roger Cole said:
Try Delta 3200 if you haven't. I no longer miss TMZ, the more so since I can get Delta 3200 in 120. Great film.

True. I've tried it and it is nice.

-J

mhcfires · Mar 29, 2016

My first camera was an Ansco 120 box camera. I was nine years old. I still miss the Verichrome and then the Verichrome Pan film. My other favorites were Panatomic X, Kodachrome 25 and Tri-X 320 in 120. There are others, but these are the ones I miss most. I'm thankful we have the Kodak Portra films and Ektar 100.

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Arklatexian · Mar 29, 2016

Sirius Glass said:
That too. I forgot that one.

I think you did mention VP earlier but who counts? I too miss this film and hope ACROSS 100 is, at least similar. Others, color transpariency films, Agfa CT18 and Kodachrome 1. To me they ruined Kodachrome when it was changed to Kodachrome 25 and later. They went from a "pretty" film to "natural" colors which don't do much when haze in the sky is caused by water and not UV. Polarizing filters were/are the only answers. Not like Western skies that could be filtered with UV filters......Regards!

ColColt · Mar 29, 2016

Other than K64(of course) did I say Agfapan 400? Great with Rodinal.

Dad022 by David Fincher, on Flickr

Roger Cole · Mar 30, 2016

oldtimermetoo said:
I think you did mention VP earlier but who counts? I too miss this film and hope ACROSS 100 is, at least similar. Others, color transpariency films, Agfa CT18 and Kodachrome 1. To me they ruined Kodachrome when it was changed to Kodachrome 25 and later. They went from a "pretty" film to "natural" colors which don't do much when haze in the sky is caused by water and not UV. Polarizing filters were/are the only answers. Not like Western skies that could be filtered with UV filters......Regards!

From my memory of limited use of Verichrome Pan, Acros is nothing like it, though possibly in spectral response (Acros is a bit less panchromatic than most other films.) But Acros is, or at least appears to me, a modern film of very tiny grain. It is nice and has a unique look, and the best reciprocity failure characteristics I'm aware of in any film. Too bad they price the sheets so high (but rolls competitively, go figure - it's like they have Acros on the Kodak model. Come to think of it that's the only Fuji black and white film in sheets so Fuji is just on the Kodak model.)

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