"New" film! AristaPan 100

[Mos6502]

Technically, this film appeared on the market last year, but I had never seen it anywhere until about a month ago. It's a low cost film, although not so cheap as the Arista films which are rebranded Foma products. Made in Germany, it's suspected to be an ORWO product. ORWO package their film in miserable plastic cassettes, which after three rolls of the stuff I swore I'd never buy any more ORWO film again until they put it in a proper metal cassette. So it's good news then, if this is ORWO, that Arista loads it into a real metal cassette.

My first roll was shot through an Ancient Miranda S SLR with the 5cm Miranda-Soligor 2.8/50 lens (a wonderful Heliar copy) and a yellow-green filter for most of the shots. The filter it seems was a mistake, as this film requires more than the recommended 1.5 stops of exposure compensation... all filtered shots came out with inky black shadow areas, an issue I've not had when using this filter on other films. Unfiltered shots were still high contrast, showing a lot of "toe" in the curve, but more balanced than the filtered shots. It certainly has a "look" to it, which I think will appeal to some photographers who enjoy high contrast. I developed the film in D-76, 1:1 dilution, for the manufacturer's recommended time.

hydrant by Berang Berang, on Flickr

creek by Berang Berang, on Flickr

There are no edge markings on the film, and the dried film lays flat with no perceptible curl.

 

[agentlossing]

Available from B&H. Your examples look pretty good!

 

[Sanug]

If it has no violet anti halation layer, it may be Wolfen (Orwo) UN54.

From left ro right: Wolfen UN54, Wolfen NP100, old Orwo NP15

 

[Out to Lunch]

AristaPan 100​

Hmmm... BH says:

Key Features

• Black and White Negative Film
• ISO 100/21°
• Antihalation Layer
• Fine Grain

 

[Sanug]

There are no edge markings on the film, and the dried film lays flat with no perceptible curl.

Same with both Wolfen (Orwo) UN54 and NP100. No edge markings or numbers at all. NP100 came in a metal cassette with DX coding as you see on my photo. My UN54 is not original Wolfen, but respooled cine film bought from Analog Amsterdam.

 

[Freakscene]

AristaPan 100​

Hmmm... BH says:

Key Features

• Black and White Negative Film
• ISO 100/21°
• Antihalation Layer
• Fine Grain

Like oils, antihalation layers ain’t antihalation layers. Modern films have multiple layers under the light sensitive layer, and on the reverse side if the film. Older films have fewer, and sometimes none on the back.

Marty

 

[Mos6502]

A couple more prints from this test roll:

wall by Berang Berang, on Flickr

creek by Berang Berang, on Flickr

 

[Mos6502]

Bumping this thread, because I want to know if anybody else has had this issue.

Recently I developed a few rolls of AristaPan 100, and two of them produced images covered with lots of random black dots. At first I thought I messed up something on my end, with processing, since I've used this film a few times before and never had bad results. Then I got a second roll with the same effect on it. I decided to look through flickr and saw several other people had posted images made with this film with the same random black dots all over the frame. Any idea what would cause this? Below is a crop of a frame to better show what I've been seeing. I processed rolls of Kentmere 100 and 15-year-old Fuji Neopan SS from this same trip, using the same chemistry, and all of those turned out fine. It's only the AristaPan which has issues.

AristaPan 100 Problem by Berang Berang, on Flickr

I have to wonder if this is the reason Freestyle marked down all their stock, and haven't had any new stock in since.

 

[Freakscene]

Bumping this thread, because I want to know if anybody else has had this issue.

Recently I developed a few rolls of AristaPan 100, and two of them produced images covered with lots of random black dots. At first I thought I messed up something on my end, with processing, since I've used this film a few times before and never had bad results. Then I got a second roll with the same effect on it. I decided to look through flickr and saw several other people had posted images made with this film with the same random black dots all over the frame. Any idea what would cause this? Below is a crop of a frame to better show what I've been seeing. I processed rolls of Kentmere 100 and 15-year-old Fuji Neopan SS from this same trip, using the same chemistry, and all of those turned out fine. It's only the AristaPan which has issues.

AristaPan 100 Problem by Berang Berang, on Flickr

I have to wonder if this is the reason Freestyle marked down all their stock, and haven't had any new stock in since.

These are clear on the negative, and therefore black in a positive, so no silver developed there. This is usually caused by reduction of silver in a non-developable way pre-exposure, inactivation of sensitization dyes or soluble particles on the film surface. Last century rebranded Foma 200 and 800 speed film that was also rebranded as Paterson Acupan did this a lot if you left it beyond its use by date. Use fresh film.

 

[Mos6502]

These are clear on the negative, and therefore black in a positive, so no silver developed there. This is usually caused by reduction of silver in a non-developable way pre-exposure, inactivation of sensitization dyes or soluble particles on the film surface. Last century rebranded Foma 200 and 800 speed film that was also rebranded as Paterson Acupan did this a lot if you left it beyond its use by date. Use fresh film.

This was purchased a few months ago, and unexpired.

 

[Freakscene]

This was purchased a few months ago, and unexpired.

My guess is that it might have sat for a while and been assigned an expiry date when Freestyle respooled it. Film doesn’t store so well some times.

The Foma/Paterson film did this in date too, it just got much worse out-of-date.