I remember the extravagant advertisements about how Kodak's Technical Pan film was so fine grain, a 35mm camera could equal the results of regular film in a 4×5" camera. Hmmm, really? I only tried it twice. Once was in Sugarland, Texas, which I wrote about here. The second time was in summer of 1985 in Athens, Greece. It was bright and glarey, not ideal conditions to be using a high-contrast film. I used my Leica M3 at EI=25 and developed the Tech. Pan in Kodak's Technical developer. Here are some examples. Most were from the 8-element 35mm ƒ/2 Summicron-RF, the model with the goggles. (You know the story, I stupidly sold that lens.)
In another thread, Drew Wiley (?) noted the soot and chalk quality of Tech. Pan. I concluded the same and did not use it after 1985. However, it worked reasonably well around the bright marble of the temples on the Acropolis. Note that already by 1985, you could not ascend up into the Parthenon, but I remember walking around in the 1970s.
In another thread, Drew Wiley (?) noted the soot and chalk quality of Tech. Pan. I concluded the same and did not use it after 1985. However, it worked reasonably well around the bright marble of the temples on the Acropolis. Note that already by 1985, you could not ascend up into the Parthenon, but I remember walking around in the 1970s.
