My oh my what happened to Foma 400?

[Paul Howell]

I've used Foma 400 off and on for well over 20 years. I've D76, Acufine, DK 50, Clayton F76, MCM 100 and other developers. I have shot at 400, 320, last few years 200 or 250. Then a few months my negative came out thin, really thin. I thought it was camera, then developer. Today I shot a test roll using a Nikon F4, manual mode, Gossen SBC meter, from 25 to 400, developed in Clayton F76+, now it's a 100. I know that a lot of folks have shot Foma at 100, I do not understand why the ISO has dropped from 320 to 100. I may have return to Kentmyer as my walk around film, I see no reason to shoot Foma 400 at 100 when I can get close to 200 with Foma 200 and 320 with Kentmyer 400 and spot on 400 with Tmax 400.

 

[Kino]

Wow, that's bad! What expiration date on this film? I assume it's a fresh purchase, no?

 

[Paul Howell]

Fresh just bought it a few weeks ago from Freestyle, it is Foma branded not house branded Foma. Just ran a roll of Kentmyer though MCM 100, 18 mint, Unicolor film drum, as expected came at 200 which is typical of MCM 100, about a stop loss of film speed.

 

[Kino]

Well, I have a stockpile of the old Arista Edu 120 in the freezer, so I have to go through that first.

Just have to worry about backing paper issues after being frozen for so long.