What is the ASA rating for Kodak Super Pancro Press Type B film? Tried looking on the web without success for an answer.
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What is the ASA rating for Kodak Super Pancro Press Type B film? Tried looking on the web without success for an answer.
The ISO is 250. Here is the spec sheet from an old Kodak film guide.Attachment 92186Attachment 92187
Thank you very much, R.J., and I thought that everything that we need to know can be found on the Web.
It's a fairly obscure film now, having been discontinued in about 1977. When I was a newbie at Kodak in the 1980s, I remember asking the old-timers there about SPP, but even they had never used it. (It was 4x5 Plus-X and Tri-X then)
The 4x5 "proofs" of my late parents' wedding pictures are in a Super Panchro-Press, Type B film box. It's stamped with a February, 1953 expiration date. At that time, there was no "6146" designation. The box carries no numerical speed rating, despite ASA Z38.2.1-1943 having been introduced a decade earlier.
I have used Super Panchro-Press and if i remember right this film would get a picture no matter the exposure.... FOMA 200 is a good film to take its place....lots of latitude and dynamic range
Glad to help. Sometimes it pays to be an "old guy" (and a pack rat). I think that was the first LF film we were issued in photo school. Nice silver rich film along the lines of Super-XX and the dearly departed Bergger 200.