Whats Your Opinion With Ilford HP5 Roll Film

I've shot a few hundred roll of Fomapan 100 & 200, plus a few boxes of 5x4, once you nail,the quirky EI/Dev times its very reliable. They do work well with Pyrocat H., I did some visual speed tests when they were the only films I could buy in bulk (10-20 rolls at a time) in Izmir, Turkey, I had to wing it a bit but months later the negatives printed perfectly.

Ian
 
Ian,
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Ian Grant said:
I've shot a few hundred roll of Fomapan 100 & 200, plus a few boxes of 5x4, once you nail,the quirky EI/Dev times its very reliable. They do work well with Pyrocat H., I did some visual speed tests when they were the only films I could buy in bulk (10-20 rolls at a time) in Izmir, Turkey, I had to wing it a bit but months later the negatives printed perfectly.

Ian
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Back again! I’m using fomapan 200 and like it a lot despite it not being very durable. Just wondering what you Dev in and if you e successfully got the 200 beyond box speed? I’m using Rollei supergrain lately but started out using Ilford DDX. No luck pushing it to 400 with those yet.


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I like the Foam 200 in sheet film but I always expose it around ISO 100. I don't think its a film which is designed to be pushed. If you treat it nice, it will be nice to you.
 
Adrian Lambert said:
Back again! I’m using fomapan 200 and like it a lot despite it not being very durable. Just wondering what you Dev in and if you e successfully got the 200 beyond box speed? I’m using Rollei supergrain lately but started out using Ilford DDX. No luck pushing it to 400 with those yet.


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I've used a lot of Fomapan 200 mostly 120 but some 5x4. These days the only developer I use is Pyrocat HD, the issue with Foma films is they build density and contrast quicker than other films during development so I shoot at half box speed and around 75% of my standard development times for my other films.

Ian
 
Ian-Barber said:
I like the Foam 200 in sheet film but I always expose it around ISO 100. I don't think its a film which is designed to be pushed. If you treat it nice, it will be nice to you.
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I agree, it’s a nice film. I’m trying to treat it nice but occasionally I’m shooting hand held 4x5 portraits with on camera flash which means depth of field is a challenge so I’d like ideally box speed or a sniff more. I read that AM-74 gets box speed but as that’s not available it’s modern analogue is Rollei supergrain. I’m happy with this at box speed but attempts to push just don’t touch anything but the lighter tones...


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Ian Grant said:
I've used a lot of Fomapan 200 mostly 120 but some 5x4. These days the only developer I use is Pyrocat HD, the issue with Foma films is they build density and contrast quicker than other films during development so I shoot at half box speed and around 75% of my standard development times for my other films.

Ian
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... so yes, contract comes on fast.


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Have you tried Fomapan 400, I haven't so can't comment on it quality.

I've always used HP5 for 5x4 hand held work either at 200 EI or box speed depending really on the shadow detail required. It also push processes well and Foma films don't. I've only had one occasion to need to push LF HP5 and it was around the 1600/3200 EI level in rapidly fading light 1/25 at f5.5 (360mm Tele Xenar), I was surprised how the film coped, there was increased grain but it wasn't really an issue.

Ian
 
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