The Gigabyte is like Techpan really a lithopan film. What the special supercompensating developers do is let you process it as ultra fine grain continuous tone film. Whether you like the results or not is something only you can determine. I personally perfer the mobility of higher speed film when using 35mm, but then I have the Anti-Digital Camera (Crown Graphic) when I need fine grain.
The price on those films are certainly one of the nicer points (J&C Photo sells both the Efke and Gigabyte film here in the US).
graywolf http://www.graywolfphoto.com "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" -----------------------------------
Henri Toivonen wrote:
Hi again,
while I was reading on about Efke's slow films I stumbled again upon a film that I read some good stuff about a while ago.
The name of the film was Gigabitfilm and supposedly a techpan-like film with extreme resolution and minimal grain.
I found a place in Germany (fotoimpex.de) that has both Efke and Gigabitfilm so I think I'll try the two of them.
Gigabitfilms' site brags with 720lpmm at 1:1000 which is a lot more than even Tech Pan, and Tri-X which is about 100lpmm, it seems almost unbelievable.
Is this film really as good as the marketing dep. wants us to believe?
It wasn't that expensive anyhow, some 7e with a small bottle of developer.
Comments?
/Henri
