Hi Keith -
I was testing out JandC's Classic Pan. It is an older formulation B&W film, reported to be re-branded Forte Pan (?). They describe as a 'high silver content" film and liken it now discontinued Kodak Super XX (before my time - I never used it.)
It used to be dirt cheap but is now moderately priced. I shoot it at ISO 100 with a long, low agitation, high dilution development process that give great results - excellent latitude with great detail from the deepest shadows to the brightest highlights, good grain structure and acuatance.
I really like APX 100, which I use when CP200 is not available, but like the results from CP200 better. The negs are fairly dense, and even on the light table you can see the excellent detail. As noted in my earlier post - the factory shut down due to financial problems a while back, but is back up and running now and the film seems unaltered.
FWIW- the "Pan" in these films names refers to "Pan Chromatic" which means they respond to the full spectrum of visible light. Really old emulsions and some specialty films are sensitive only to a portion of visible spectrum, most common being blue through green.
- MCC
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Mark Cassino Photography
Kalamazoo, MI
www.markcassino.com
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Whaley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 5:20 AM
Subject: Re: PESO - Snow Flea
frank theriault wrote:
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 22:19:33 -0500, Mark Cassino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I went out Friday and visited a place where like to take landscape shots.
My main goal was to test stuff out - the 67 55mm f4, Classic Pan 200 (the
120 film back after a production hiatus), and the Ricoh TLR I recently got
off eBay.
Whose film? The only Pan film I've ever used was Kodak Panatomic-X or Plus-X Pan. Well, not quite true, as Tri-X is a pan film...
keith whaley
