ORWO NP15 in Pyrocat HD

[marko_trebusak]

A friend offered me a 5x4 box of this film. I sniffed around net about it, but most of information seems to be in German, and that is a problem for me :rolleyes:. By Ole's information it's not the same film as EFKE 25.

I'll be supping it in Pyrocat HD, but would like to know reciprocity curve and developing time for it.

As for speed, my guess is, that since I like open look of photos, I'll try it first at one third less speed than 25 ISO.

Thank you
Marko

 

[big_ben_blue]

ORWO (ORiginal WOlfen) used to be the Eastgerman film manufacturer in the town of Wolfen. It pretty much supplied most of the easten block with film material.
The colour films were awkful to the exteme, but the B&W films (also way more available then their colour brethren) were of rather decent nature (even got some very good reviews in the HPBooks "Photographic Materials and Processes" ). ORWO B&W films are good 'ol classic emulsions.
After the wall came down in 89, production went to pretty much zero. It didn't help that AGFA got commisioned by the Treuhand to put together a report/study to see if the company could be made profitable in a western business climate (AGFA just saw an unwanted competition, and a good way to kill it with their study). Anyways, filmotec.de took over a few years after and is still in business http://www.filmotec.de/English_Site/english_site.html. Some of the new ORWO films are apparently repacked ILFORD's.
But since you are refering to the NP range, I would think it's one of their old emulsions. Here's a chart which might be of some help http://www.digitaltruth.com/chart/old/orwo_old.html
If my memory serves me well, I believe that I read somewhere (back in the 90s) that some of the manufacturing equipment went to the Czec republic (Foma?).
If you need someone to translate those german info into english, let me know (i am of east german origin LOL ). I might even be able to scan you some of the pages from the HPBook.

Cheers,
Chris

 

[Mark Layne]

I have a brick of 35mm Orwopan which has to be discarded because of scratches that run the entire length of every roll
Mark

 

[Stane Kočar]

Marko,
včasih smo razvijali tudi NP 15. Če hočeš, lahko pobrskam po arhivu in ti povem kaj več podatkov. Je pa to film v rangu EFKE 25 (z drugo besedo OK).
Če imaš kaj nemškega materiala ni problem za prevod.

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Stane Kočar