kodak technical pan film

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Hi all, i've recently got one of this roll expired in '97 but it was always kept in a cold storage. Any advice for this film type? It's like ilford Pan F?
 
It's not really like Pan F, in my experience, but I've only had it developed in Technidol (shot it at ISO 25); possibly more like Fuji Acros? Tech Pan always had a unique look to me, probably because it has an extended red sensitivity & thin base.
 
Not like Pan F at all, finer grain and higher contrast, quite hard to give good pictorial results without low contrast developers. Think document film rather than Pan F or Acros, nominally rated 12-25 EI for good tonal response.
Here's a picture I took on it in the mid 1980's

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It was hard to handle even back then - and most of the developers to tame technical films for pictorial use are gone by now. That it is 15 years expired won't make matters any easier, as it had a reputation for growing even higher contrast as it aged. If you really want to, try any of the developers currently marketed for Agfa Copex film.

As far as the characteristics go, high contrast like Pan F, flat footed like Acros, but with a very different spectral response than either - where Pan F is normal and Acros is orthopanchromatic (i.e. low red sensitive), it is hyperpanchromatic to the point that it had some near infrared applications.
 
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This is technical Pan, rated at 25 iso and developed in Delagi D8 (home made soup). The Tech Pan was used for a multitude of subjects. The biggest user was the US military and CIA who used it for surveillance purposes. Extremely high resolution and limited grey scale. You need to shoot it in flat grey light - bright sunshine will "flare it out" with strange halo's around the subject. Leica M6 and Summilux 35mm f1.4 Aspherical.
 
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I used a lot of tech Pan for industrial stuff in the 70's and 80's - both 35mm and 120. Mainly developed it in POTA or the Delagi D8. It can work in Rodinal, stand development 1:100 ) 1 hour) or 1: 200 (2 hours) - but be prepared for "edge" flare - speed around 25/32 iso.
This is an old shot, very flat, overcast weather, Tech Pan rated at 40 iso and "pushed" with Rodinal 1:40 for 9 min. Leica M2, Super-Angulon 21mm f3.4
 
noisycheese said:
Freestyle Photo is offering "Tech Pan: The Next Generation:"
http://www.freestylephoto.biz/42220...Technical-Pan-Film-35mm-x-36-exp.-Single-Roll

@ Tom - what are your thoughts on this film? Is it a reforumulated version of Kodak's Tech Pan? It is rated at ISO 32 rather than 25...
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As far as known, Rollei ATP 1.1 is one of the Agfa Copex family films. It is intended for similar technical applications as Technical Pan, so the resolution, colour and contrast response when processed as a high-contrast film will be reasonably similar.

Personally I never got any of the Copex films to behave as nicely as Technical Pan/Technidol or Agfaortho 25/Rodinal 1+100 for general photography, regardless of what developer I tried. They probably can be excellent (in a different way) once you come to terms with them (using Tech Pan or Agfaortho had a steep learning curve too), but they are different, and I never had the patience to learn them from scratch.
 
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I was given several rolls of this stuff about five years ago by a studio photog getting out of film. I didn't know anything about it so I shot it as ASA100 and developed it like Plus-X. As the results were pretty high contrast, I decided to push the contrast even further during printing and I really like the look. One thing I noticed with this film is that skies came out dark as though I was using a deep yellow filter - but I wasn't.

I recently found a roll I didn't even know I still had lurking in my garage (oops!) so I will have shoot that soon, probably rate it slower this time.
 
I developed some with Ilfotec HC (like HC110) rated it at 100 EI to get maximum contrast of course it's not pictorial but was what was called for at the time:

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I've used some Agfa Copex too it's hard to use but with a low contrast developer like Spur nanospeed is OK
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GarageBoy said:
Does any one make a technidol clone?
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Not a clone, but Photographers Fomulary makes TD-3 especially for technical pan. I have a bunch of rolls that I bulk rolled in 1998, that were stored in a hot attic, and I have managed to get good results.
With one batch I inadvertently used a stop bath with it, which kind of solarized the image, but other batches have been perfect, so follow the instructions precisely!
 
This is an old thread, but I was given three rolls of 35mm Kodak Technical Pan (expired 2002). I hunted around for a development scheme and finally settled on this. Mostly because I had Rodinal. I'm only posting in case some of you still have some in the fridge.

16 EI

Rodinal 1+150 for thirteen minutes

Agitate with 30 seconds initial inversions, then 3 inversions at 10 minutes,7 minutes,4 minutes, and 1minute counting down. (every 3 minutes)

Regular stop, fix and hypo.

I used 5ml of Rodinal in 750ml of H2O. That gives less than the recommended 10ml of Rodinal but the negatives really look great (full tone scale). I haven't scanned yet but I will post later.
 
Here are a few from my first roll. A few observations: dust magnet, midtones have to be adjusted with curves, curls but not too bad, scans easily.

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr

Technical Pan Rodinal by John Carter, on Flickr
 
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