Question about Kentmere 400

[gb hill]

My local camera store stocked Arista Premium film & still has a few rolls of the EDU 100 left. It sure was nice to walk in a store in N.Carolina & be able to walk out the door with rolls of Arista Premium & EDU films, but now the Premium has dried up. The store has switched over to Kentmere which of course is made by Harmon as their now low budget B&W film so I bought 10 rolls.

I never shot this film & will be expermenting with HC-110, RO-9, & D-76. How well does this film scan? & would like to read your experience. Exp. date is June 2018 so this must be a really fresh batch.

 

[gb hill]

Wow...no takers. I guess the film is so new (think I read somewhere it's a new emultion) no one has shot any yet.

 

[zauhar]

Greg , I have used in the past, I like it. I will look through my pics later, see if I can point you to example with a particular developer .

Randy

 

[Noserider]

I like it in replenished Xtol, was a bit too grainy for my tastes in Rodinal but good for effect. I seem to like the 100 better.

 

[zauhar]

Greg, if I can believe the file names I used, the following are all developed in HC110B, some pushed to 1600. - Randy

P.S. All scanned with a Canon 9000, not the highest-end device

@ 1600:

@400

@400

@400

@1600

 

[Ko.Fe.]

Sorry, I was developing roll of Fomapan 400, done now 🙂

I went through 90 feet of it Kentmere 400. To me it was best at ISO200 and I was using x-tol.
Not problems to scan. No problems to wet print.

 

[Filzkoeter]

It's a nice film, comes somehow grainy in Rodinal and quite nice in xtol. Dries completly flat and has good consistant Ilford quality.
I recently started to use Rollei RPX400 as my main film in HC110 and I love it. Many people believe it's either the same as Kentmere or quite similar to it. In my opinion it's not the same, but it could be my change to HC110 that gives me better results, I still want to test some K400 against RPX400; same scene, same exposure, same development to confirm it (but it's true that both films use the same base).

For HC110 i'm using those times with really nice fine grained results:
http://www.maco-photo.de/files/images/TA_RPX_400_gb.pdf
Could be a starting point for developing Kentmere400.

 

[philipus]

I bought 30m for fun and liked it. I develop it in HC110 using Tri-X times and it works for me.

Edit: On my flickr I don't have anything except this one, which I've pp'd according to my BW presets.

Leica M6TTL Millennium, Summitar and EOS 1N plus 17-40L f4 | Flickr
M4 35 Summilux Asph (II) Kentmere 400 HC-110(E)

 

[Mark C]

Very nice, affordable, classic looking film. But significantly grainier than TX or HP5 Plus.

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

i use kentmere quite a fair bit. i soup them in various solutions, hc110, tmax dev and infosol 3.... recently i took the leap and used them for a photoshoot. I won't comment on the graininess as I tend to overdevelop it in higher temp, resulting in more textures.

here are some samples of the kentmere in the last 2 weeks, from a variety of camera/lens and developers used.

raytoei

 

[gb hill]

Randy, Those examples @ 1600 look nice. Good to see how well this film pushes as I'm shooting my last rolls of neopan 1600.

Ko Fe thank you & no problem Yes I'll be scaning this film mainly to post to the great www but want to start wet printing as the temps are starting to warm up a bit.

Filz, Let us know how your test come out.

Philip, Do you use Dil.B? Photo looks good & times seem spot on. I'm liking the grain I'm seeing from the examples you all posted. I think this will be my go to 400 film as long as it's available to me. Thanks for all your post thus far.

 

[Filzkoeter]

some of my Kentmere400 examples

in Rodinal 1+25; shot at 400

in xtol 1+1 & rodinal 1+100, shot at 400

pushed to 800 in xtol (i think stock or 1+1, don't remember)


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the last two are RPX400 (shot at 400) in HC110 B for 5 minutes... but as I said, I don't guarantee that it's the same film 🙄 I'll post my test results as soon as I can shoot them (I've got no K400 left at the moment)

 

[f16sunshine]

Great drama! I really Like this.