Cracking the Code - Fomapan F21
In a Film Subscription Box from AnalogHeld, I got a roll of Fomapan F21. While I've heard of Fomapan, I had never heard of F21, which used to be a popular film. The expiry was dated 1990, so not too bad, but it was also made east of the Iron Curtain. There was a datasheet, but it only listed two developers, Fomadon N and Fomadon P, neither of which I had heard of, and the only developer I could find through a Flickr search was Rodinal 1+50 for 10.5 minutes. So, it was on my list to see if I could shoot another film with the same development time/dilution/approximate speed. I used Svema FN64 as a baseline and used the D-76 time. And the results were better than I expected.
Mamiya m645 - Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm - Fomapan F21 @ ASA-80
Kodak D-76 (Stock) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Gossen Lunasix F
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC
Cracking the Code - Fomapan F21
In a Film Subscription Box from AnalogHeld, I got a roll of Fomapan F21. While I've heard of Fomapan, I had never heard of F21, which used to be a popular film. The expiry was dated 1990, so not too bad, but it was also made east of the Iron Curtain. There was a datasheet, but it only listed two developers, Fomadon N and Fomadon P, neither of which I had heard of, and the only developer I could find through a Flickr search was Rodinal 1+50 for 10.5 minutes. So, it was on my list to see if I could shoot another film with the same development time/dilution/approximate speed. I used Svema FN64 as a baseline and used the D-76 time. And the results were better than I expected.
Mamiya m645 - Mamiya-Sekor C 1:2.8 f=80mm - Fomapan F21 @ ASA-80
Kodak D-76 (Stock) 9:00 @ 20C
Meter: Gossen Lunasix F
Scanner: Epson V700 + Silverfast 9 SE
Editor: Adobe Photoshop CC