How Slow Do You Go?

I still have a huge stash of apx 25 120 left and love using that stuff. great tonality for that speed and really not high contrast like pan f+. going on a quick road trip and probably gonna shoot 20 or so rolls of it. in rodinal its a dream to enlarge
 
J enea said:
I still have a huge stash of apx 25 120 left and love using that stuff. great tonality for that speed and really not high contrast like pan f+. going on a quick road trip and probably gonna shoot 20 or so rolls of it. in rodinal its a dream to enlarge
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Absolutely one of the best out there. Shoot well!
 
Thanks for reviving this thread, this is very interesting to me.
I normally shoot 35mm FP4+ at box speed in D76, but I see the Dev chart shows it at 50 & 80, and in Rodinal down to 25.
I think I am looking for grain-less photos with a very wide dynamic range in well-lit outdoor scenes.
Does anyone have advice for me on how to shoot and develop?
 
That is the rub. Most all the slow films left can be contrasty in bright light. PanF+ would be my suggestion to start. I like it in DD-X 1:4 an awful lot, but you have to watch out for letting it sit around in the camera or waiting to be developed. And deep shadows with bright, hot highlights can still be a challenge.
 
sepiareverb said:
...Most all the slow films left can be contrasty in bright light......
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In the 1970s I used a couple of rolls of Adox KB14 (box speed 20 ASA=ISO). Pics I took of friends at the top of a mountain in bright sunshine sure were contrasty! These days I would expose more and develop less but I didn't know about that then.

Interestingly, Panatomic-X was different, much kinder to subject and photographer.
 
I just gave my last and only role of Kodachrome 25 to my favorite camera store owner for his in-store collection display. It included the metal can it came in.
 
john_s said:
...Interestingly, Panatomic-X was different, much kinder to subject and photographer.
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Agreed. Kinda unique with that slow-speed-low-contrast, at least from what I've shot of slow films.

film nut said:
I just gave my last and only role of Kodachrome 25 to my favorite camera store owner for his in-store collection display. It included the metal can it came in.
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Kodachrome 25. My last run Kodachromes were a mix of mostly 64 and 64/Pro with the last one or two rolls of 25 from the deep freeze. Not metal can vintage tho.
 
Not sure how usable it would be but someone has 8 rolls of 1000' of Kodak 2462 duplicating film on ebay right now. ISO is around 1. Might be unperforated film, it is expired but cheap.

Shawn
 
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