C 41 black and white film11/21/2023 This film comes in at about half the price of the Ilford I'm used to, and about a third of the price of some other films. To my delight, they had a cabinet full of various different 35mm films including Fomapan, a name I'd recently read about.įomapan is a Czech manufacturer of photographic supplies, and they have a reputation for being cheaper than your Ilfords, Fujis and so on. Last summer, giddy with the afterglow of having received a nice set of shots back from the roll of Ilford I'd used, I visited Park Cameras and picked up some new film. The results should be broadly the same, albeit the development process is slightly more expensive, or less commonly available on the high street. Having shot black and white using a film that wasn't truly black and white, my inevitable next step was to shoot 'proper' black and white film. I think I've even made this mistake before when discussing this camera! Shows what happens when I use it so infrequently. Not bad for a fifty-five year old camera.ĮDIT: As Shawn rightly points out in the comments below, of course the Hi-Matic 7s cannot do aperture or shutter priority - it is either automatic (with both settings on 'A'), which is how I shot the majority of this film, or you must set both the aperture and the shutter, using the EV numbers in the light meter as a guide. What's more, the camera allows you to shoot in either aperture or shutter priority, or fully automatically, with the user only having to set the focus. It is a nice - if somewhat bulky and heavy - camera to use. And the results in general from the Hi-Matic 7s are also really satisfying. The results I've had from Ilford film have been great. That said, I haven't a clue if that's right or not. I understand that the form of black and white produced by Ilford XP2 is not strictly black and white - I would guess it is more like how a colour display shows a black and white image, but using RGB pixels. You take pictures as normal, and get the film developed anywhere that does colour film, and the photos that come out are black and white. When I used my Minolta Hi-Matic 7s last time, I used some Ilford XP2 film with it - this is a black and white film which has the special ability to be developed using the colour (C41) process. I recently shot some Fomapan 200 in my Minolta Hi-Matic 7s and the results were. All rights reserved.Home | blog | audio | photo | about Buy my book on Charles Paget Wadeįomapan black and white film - my experience Posted on 02 March 2021 All you need is water, a thermometer and any simple tank and reel system!Ĭopyright © Digitaltruth Photo Ltd, 2023. You can have beautifully developed, bleached and fixed color negatives, ready to scan or print. Modern emulsions were designed so that one-hour photo labs wouldn't need haz-mat training for formaldehyde, and have built-in dye stabilizers and hardeners that are released through this simplified 2-bath process. If you already process your own black and white film, with this kit, there is no reason not to process C-41 color negative film at home as well! It is specially formulated without compromise for modern color films, not requiring a stabilizer bath. Liquid quart kit includes "Stabilizer" Final Rinse. ![]()
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