Rollei Pan 25

[Jamie123]

Anyone ever tried it?

I got a roll of Rollei Pan25 120 film with a recent order from an online camera store. If anyone has tried it I'd love to see some pictures!

 

[kully]

This months B&W Photography magazine (UK) had a test of this. I havn't read the whole article yet, the gist of it seems to be that it doesn't have that much more resolution than HP5+.

Actually, looking at the photos - I prefer the HP5+ ones.

 

[Jamie123]

Sounds disappointing.
Is the finer grane noticeable in the pictures? Did they try 120 film or 35mm?

It's quite expensive. I wouldn't have bought it but I accidentally ordered two of another item instead of ordering just one so I asked them to replace one with whatever film that has the same price. I have, however, read that it's supposed to be similar to APX25 (which I have never tried either).

 

[LKSC]

I've tried several rolls in 35mm. Its very fine grained and capable of very high resolution, more than what I would expect from HP5+.

Here is a scan of the full 35mm frame, and then a 1:1 crop of the highlighted area @5000dpi.

 

[erudolph]

Lloyd, how are you processing it?

Ed

 

[LKSC]

Ed, I have it processed by dr5 as a chrome. www.dr5.com

 

[Trius]

It seems to compare an ISO 25 film with one nominally rated at 400.

 

[erudolph]

thanks, lloyd

ed