Trying new film

[WolfTales]

I'm shooting Rollei Pan 25 today and I'm excited to try it. Any tips on this one? Is it very contrasty?

 

[nickandre]

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]

Isn't it just another film re-branded?

 

[brofkand]

ajuk: I doubt it. There are no other ISO 25 films on the market anymore that I know of...

 

[ajuk]

How can that be Rollie don't make there own film do they?

 

[Prest_400]

ajuk: I doubt it. There are no other ISO 25 films on the market anymore that I know of...

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.

 

[Solarize]

ajuk: I doubt it. There are no other ISO 25 films on the market anymore that I know of...

There is ADOX CHS 25 in Europe at least.

 

[Solarize]

Beaten to it by Prest 400. I've just gotten some CHS 50, very excited to try it.

 

[Ian Grant]

Don't forget Efke and Adox ISO 25 film. Ilford has got an Ortho 25 in sheets

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

 

[Prest_400]

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.

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

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.

 

[WolfTales]

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!