info on old film needed.

[eddie gunks]

hello,

i have a box of old film i am interested in finding some info on. development times and chemicals would be great.

i have extapan film, royal pan film, and release positive film.

anyone know anything about them?

thanks

eddie

 

[Konical]

hello,

i have a box of old film i am interested in finding some info on. development times and chemicals would be great.

i have extapan film, royal pan film, and release positive film.

anyone know anything about them?

thanks

eddie

Good Evening, Eddie,

Ektapan was a film which had similar speed and spectral response to those of the old Vericolor II film. It was normally used in studio work when both B & W and color negatives were needed; its nominal speed was 100.

Royal Pan was a general purpose film with a nominal speed of 400.

Fine Grain Release Film is a very slow film (paper speed) intended for making B & W positives from negatives.

There have been several recent posts on each of these films.

Konical

 

[Anscojohn]

Ektapan was a B/W emulsion, an "improvement" on the other EK films of about the same ASA ratings. Royal Pan was a very high speed black and white film--ASA 1200 iirc, I believe with extended red sensitivity and grain the size of golf balls. Fine Grain Release (asa 8? 10?) was for making negatives from negatives, I believe without having to be reversal processed, but don't pin me down on that. This is all from memory so don't go to court with this as evidence.

John, Mount Vernon, VA USA

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Ektapan is a nice portrait film, made until fairly recently. I have some in 8x10" that I use occasionally, and I've used some in 11x14". I rate it at EI 50 in ABC pyro 1+1+1+7 for 10 min. targeted for Azo G2. You might back that off to 8 min. or so for enlarging paper.

Royal Pan was ASA 400 (Royal-X Pan was the super high speed film). I posted some experiments with it here--

(there was a url link here which no longer exists)