Maco Up 400 B & W Negative Film

[bgb]

Anyone heard of this stuff or better got great results with it?
For sale cheap on the local auction site and the seller doesn't know nothing about photography 🙂 He has auctions for 100 and 400 asa films.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=265930977

I can find developing info on

http://www.digitaltruth.com/devchart.php?Film=Maco&Developer=&mdc=Search

On the film container is ...

" PERFECT FOR JOURNALISTIC PURPOSES AND AS A ROBUST WORKING FILM FOR INDUSTRIAL AND POLICE APPLICATIONS OPTIMAL FOR USE IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS "

Sounds a little scary 🙂

Cheers,

Brian

 

[Roger Hicks]

Dear Brian,

Maco films come from a wide variety of sources, and at least once, the 'same' film has come from two different suppliers.

Most are good or very good, but it's always a gamble. The 'surveillance' line makes me suspect it's an extended red film, probably like Maco Cube, which was very good.

Cheers,

R.

 

[ath]

Back in the days I used it I tried to find this out as well. If memory serves well the only hint I could find was a dealer in Austria stating that this was (or should be treated like?) HP5+.
I developed it in XTOL, didn't like the result and went on. The only reason for me to use it back then was that it was cheap.

 

[bgb]

Thanks guys, this auction is for 30 rolls so it might be a bit sad if the film was horrible/ bloody bargain if it's good
At least i know how to process it
🙂

 

[ath]

The hint from the dealer (incl. developing times): http://www.foto-riegler.at/download/Maco UP 400-Entwicklungszeiten.pdf

The datasheet from maco: http://www.mahn.net/TAUPe.htm

HTH.

 

[bgb]

Thanks for the links Andreas 🙂

 

[xwhatsit]

As BGB knows from my PMs I bought this auction. My first time developing. So far I've done three rolls at box speed, and two rolls pushed to 1600ISO. I developed in Microphen. Developing is fun! And not hard or expensive -- of course, I read Microphen is pretty tolerant w.r.t. times and temps, but nevertheless actually getting recognisable images was a surprise for me!

Here's one I did at 400ISO. Not the best scan but I like the tones in the image, sometimes I seem to fluke the exposure:

And a shot from one of the rolls I pushed to 1600ISO, noticeable increase in grain, but not too bad compared to some shots I've seen of Rodinal doing ordinary unpushed 400 speed film:

I can't say whether or not Maco UP400+ is a good film or not as I obviously have no experience with B&W and developing in general, but I was pretty happy with my results for my first time developing.

 

[petronius]

UP 400/Rodinal: