ORWO N75

relistan · Nov 4, 2020

I know this film has been talked about here in a few places, but there wasn't a thread just about it. This is the film that replaced N74+ earlier this year. Filmotec claim the biggest change is better anti-halation. However, the spectral sensitivity is quite different from N74+ so I think they've done a bit more than that. On RFF someone kindly shared the spec PDF, which ORWO have not posted anywhere.

I recently ordered 100 ft of it and finally got around to loading, shooting, developing, and scanning my first roll from it. Here are a couple of shots in XTOL stock for 8.5 mins @ 20C.

So far I really like this film. It has a definite "Kodak" look to me. A bit like Double-X, a bit like Tri-X. It's an ISO 320 film, but I am pretty sure that I would have had excellent results at the same dev times at EI640 or possibly EI800. There is still buckets of shadow detail at 320.

1958 Leica M2, Summarit-M 2.5/35mm

laingsoft · Nov 4, 2020

This is exciting. I ordered a roll of UN54, the N74+ was sold out. I can't wait to give it a try.

Pentode · Nov 4, 2020

laingsoft said:
This is exciting. I ordered a roll of UN54, the N74+ was sold out. I can't wait to give it a try.

I shoot tons of UN54+. It's nice film. The grain is very different than Plus-X but the tonality is very similar. If you were ever a Plus-X user this will be familiar territory. I like it best in D-76 1:1.

I'm very curious about this new N75. I use N74+ as my EI400 film as of recently and I still have a fair amount left but I'd be very curious to see side-by-side comparisons between N74+ and N75. The ISO being lowered to 320 is probably realistic as I think N74+ is probably closer to 320 as well but I'm very curious about the other differences.

laingsoft · Nov 4, 2020

I'm just a little late to the film photography game to have tried plus-x, I did buy some darkroom stuff that came with some really old hand rolled plus x, but I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet.

I typically use Ansco 17, which is very similar to D76, so hopefully it'll turn out well.

Pentode · Nov 4, 2020

laingsoft said:
I did buy some darkroom stuff that came with some really old hand rolled plus x, but I haven't had a chance to shoot it yet.

You're in for a treat. Plus-X is beautiful film. Don't wait too long, though; For whatever reason (maybe just bad luck) I've found that Plus-X tends to defy the conventional wisdom of slower films aging gracefully. I find expired Plus-X more prone to age-related fog than other expired films of the same speed.

relistan · Nov 4, 2020

Pentode said:
I'm very curious about this new N75. I use N74+ as my EI400 film as of recently and I still have a fair amount left but I'd be very curious to see side-by-side comparisons between N74+ and N75. The ISO being lowered to 320 is probably realistic as I think N74+ is probably closer to 320 as well but I'm very curious about the other differences.

I can't compare side-by-side but from looking at scans on Flickr I'd say that N75 appears to have a bit different tonality while maintaining the same grain shape and size and having similar contrast. I would guess the spectral sensitivity change is most responsible for the difference.

Pentode said:
I shoot tons of UN54+. It's nice film. The grain is very different than Plus-X but the tonality is very similar. If you were ever a Plus-X user this will be familiar territory. I like it best in D-76 1:1.

I have two rolls of UN54 (not +) that I shot awhile back and have not developed. I need to get that done!

Karl

cmacd123 · Nov 13, 2020

Not enough to judge yet, but I was surprised that my first roll of N75 has reverted to the Pre-keycode edge pint. Just ORWO c3 49 on one edge and a 6 dist footage number on the other. Both arranged to read right from the Emulsion side. (Which is actually sane if one were to be editing the film)

BradS · Nov 13, 2020

@relistan Lovey results. This seems like a very interesting film. Thanks for sharing.

relistan · Nov 15, 2020

BradS said:
@relistan Lovey results. This seems like a very interesting film. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! No problem. I do like this film and it was pretty cool to get it straight from Filmotec here in Europe. I'm on my second roll now. Will post more when I get that done. In the meantime, here are a couple more from the first roll:

BradS · Nov 15, 2020

Looking at the filmotec website for these two camera films ( http://www.filmotec.de/?cat=23&lang=en&lang=en ) , it's clear they are intended to be used as motion picture films...not a problem - that's where small format photography all began after all - but jeeez, the smallest sized roll is 30.5 meters...

Are you finding N75 in individual 135 format cassettes ?

also, note that the data sheets are also published in PDF format on that page

relistan · Nov 15, 2020

BradS said:
Are you finding N75 in individual 135 format cassettes ?

Nope, it's motion picture film, so I bulk loaded it. I'm sure you'll shortly be able to get it from someone on eBay bulk loaded if that's what you are looking for.

BradS said:
also, note that the data sheets are also published in PDF format on that page

Great! They weren't before.

AgX · Nov 15, 2020

BradS said:
Looking at the filmotec website for these two camera films ( http://www.filmotec.de/?cat=23&lang=en&lang=en ) , it's clear they are intended to be used as motion picture films.

No surprise, as nearly all their films were/are directed at the cine-world. That was their niche from the start, with some cashcow added for speed-trap photography and some scientific stuff. Just these days they added a new film aimed at a different institutional market, competing though with Agfa, reflecting their product development of the last years.

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