Had to push Fomapan 100 to 1600 using Rodinal. Here are some results

[caila77]

I don't believe anyone is questioning the existence of other
higher-quality films that are more suitable for shooting at ISO 1600... it's just for fun, although some of the results above could be used to achieve special effects during printing.

 

[fub]

here is the comparison to Fomapan 400 at 1600iso and Kentmere 400 at 1600iso. Each developed in 600ml 1:100 Rodinal stand developing for 2 hours. I slightly agitated (2-3 agitations) the Kentmere development after 60 minutes.
I forgot to shoot the control scene with the kentmere and also mindlessly messed up the exposures on many of the foma 400 shots, but at least we got the control pic:

Here is the reference photo using Fomapan 100 exposed for 100 iso, Rodinal 1:100 1h stand, Jupiter-8


Next Fomapan 100 pushed to 1600 iso, Two consecutive Rodinal 1:100 500ml 1h developments, Jupiter-8:


Fomapan 400 pushed to 1600 iso, Rodinal 1:100 600ml 2h stand development, Jupiter 8:

This one might be interesting. I exposed the next frame on the Foma 400 roll for 320iso to see how the stand development treats such a variation in exposure:

Here is a different shot using the kentmere. Supermarket lighting, shot at f2 and 1/30s, 1:100 600ml Rodinal 2h semi-stand:

 

[fub]

Here are some more shots from the Fomapan 400 roll. Most taken like on the christmas market at f2 and 1/30, after dark, downtown. I adjusted contrast on some of pictures a bit.

Semi-dark alley, old school street lanthern as only light:





quiet a bit of contrast added:



a shop window with exposure adjusted:

these shop windows seem to be underexposed. had to a bit of work on the scan to get them to look better. shot some at f2, 1/30 but changed to something like f4, 1/60 after taking a shot with my digital camera. most of the shots came out underexposed looking anyways. some turned out super dense and quiet crappy:


back to f2, 1/30s:


f2, 1/30s i like this shot:


Not sure what happened to the hightlight on that one. Massively overexposed? still a somewhat interesting shot imo:

 

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and here is some kentmere 400 pushed to 1600 in 2h 1:100 600ml Rodinal semi-stand for comparison.

all of these are shot at f2, 1/30s:









my conclusion so far: foma 400 does of course do better at 1600, foma 100 could still be used in some maybe more abstract situtations. kentmere 400 looks the best and it totally fine for me at 1600. it does cost double of what bulk loading fomapan would cost though.
i might grab 17meter of foma 400 for snapshots during winter and maybe a roll or two of foma 200 to finish off this comparison