• Welcome to Photrio!
    Registration is fast and free. Join today to unlock search, see fewer ads, and access all forum features.
    Click here to sign up

Trying new film

WolfTales

Member
Allowing Ads
Joined
Jun 16, 2009
Messages
248
Format
Medium Format
I'm shooting Rollei Pan 25 today and I'm excited to try it. Any tips on this one? Is it very contrasty?
 
That film is awesome. It has a clear base which makes the negatives very appealing to look at. I had no problems shooting it at 25 and developing it for the directed time at D76 1:1. They printed at a #2 filter quite nicely.
 
ajuk: I doubt it. There are no other ISO 25 films on the market anymore that I know of...
 
brofkand said:
ajuk: I doubt it. There are no other ISO 25 films on the market anymore that I know of...
Click to expand...
Don't forget Efke and Adox ISO 25 film. Ilford has got an Ortho 25 in sheets.
Adox has a pair of ASA 25 emulsions. Panchromatic (pan25) and Orthochromatic (ort25). According to them, these are different emulsions than those of Maco/Rollei.

Rollei (and I believe adox too) coat their emulsions through other companies. I've heard about Rollei coating in Filmotec's factory. I suppose it's possible to do it with a company that offers Custom coating.
 
Beaten to it by Prest 400. I've just gotten some CHS 50, very excited to try it.
 
Curious, in the same minute.
That adox/efke film seems interesting. I'd like to shoot a bit of it, I've seen very nice examples. It's different to modern emulsions, too.

Ian Grant said:
The Ilford Ortho film is 80 ISO for normal use. It's a very nice film and behaves quite like FP4 except it's Orthochromatic.

Ian
Click to expand...
Oh, didn't know that. When ortho is mentioned, a 25ASA film comes to my mind. Even though there were High speed films like TriX ortho (now that would be interesting to try!).
It's experience, I need more of it. Once I clear a bit some economic stuff (oct/nov). I should start to do my own B/W (I hope Impex will still have some APX100! Can't miss it in rodinal!). I know, but I do little; let's see if I can put hands on B&W.
 
So I had a chance to develop this last night in Pyro. Checked out the Rollei website and they only had recommendations for their own developers so I just winged it by going on other people's recommendations for 25 speed film in Pyro PMK on Massive Dev chart. I took off 10% of the developing time just in case it was contrasty.

Came out looking pretty good! I added 15 seconds of after bath, checked it visually, and then added another 10 seconds.

Can't wait to print!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register