Ultrafine Plus 400 for 120 film

[raytoei@gmail.com]

Most of the consensus I have read is that Ultrafine Plus 100 is Fomapan 100 film.

What is interesting is that according to the dev charts available from the website ( http://site.ultrafineonline.com/developmentchart.pdf ),the 400 ISO version resembles HP5+.

Just want to check if anyone has developed the 400 iso film and I would like to know their comments.

thanks!

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

well, i figured out the best answer would be to test it out. I put in a bid on evil bay 🙂

 

[raytoei@gmail.com]

Well,

I took delivery of 20 rolls last week of this Ultrafine Plus 400 film.

The backing paper looks identical to one show here.

The aluminum wrapper looks like this.

I presoaked 1 minute, and then developed in D-76 for 7.5minutes. The negatives looked a bit thin and I was initially worried that it wouldn't scan well.

The water from the pre-soak was clear (compared to the inky Shanghai GP3). Curl was an issue when scanning, especially when I cut it into 3 frames for my Canoscan 8800f. The images were scanned at 2400 DPI but are downsampled here.

(Aligned, and fiddled with contrast and brightness). The foilage is still too dark, will use a yellow filter instead of an Orange filter.

Untouched. Underexposed due to insufficient compensation for Orange filter. Opened up 1 stop for backlight. Sunny 16.

Untouched. Underexposed due to insufficient compensation for Orange filter. Sunny 16.

Earlier Roll. EI of 400. Opened Wide at F2.8, 1/30s

Any idea what film is this ?


raytoei

 

[ItsReallyDarren]

Give Ultrafine Warehouse a call. When I called them they were hush on the details but I managed to ask what region of the world this Ultrafine Plus comes from, the answer was "the orient".

I'm guessing its Lucky film because they come in both 35mm and 120. If I ever get ahold of some Lucky 35mm film I'll test it with the few rolls I have of UF Plus.

 

[shadowfox]

Foma 120 rolls that I have processed has blue base (the negative looks blue-ish).

Whatever the film is, it is able to record wide enough range of tones (last picture especially). In my book, that's a good film.

Another criteria for me is how easy these are to print in the darkroom.