4x5 100 iso film Adox or Fomapan

[edp]

Probably made by Filmotec, although if you needed to know for certain you'd have to ask. http://www.wephota.de/fotogra.htm

either in 50 or 100 ISO

25 or 100. I've got about 250 sheets of half-plate 25 ISO film in my fridge that needs using.

[mhulsman]

Did you have to pay VAT (or the greek equivalent) on top of the purchase price?
Norway is outside EU, so i am afraid the tax must be payed twice.
From within EU, i appreciate german sites, like www.lumiere-shop.de. They even stock uncommon sizes: i am going to try half plate Wephota sheet film, either in 50 or 100 ISO version (the 100 ISO should be like the old Orwo NP22, probably made by Fotochemika Efke, am i right?).

have fun

CJ

I ordered a lot of 8x10 and 4x5. from fomafoto.
You don't have to pay VAT when you live in europe.
Shipping costs are higher, but fomafoto is still the cheapest.

Mike

[thicktheo]

I didn't pay VAT either.

The shipping costs are high when your order is more than 350gr but, luckily, when you order a single 4x5 box the weight is less than that, so you pay 4,7€ for shipping. This brings the final price of a 50-sheet 4x5 box to 25-26€ (depending on which film you choose), which is cheaper than Shanghai.

At the same time, after having tried both Shanghai and the chinese ERA PSS (not available any more), I am more than happy with Fomapan (both 100 & 400).

[IanG]

I have been using Fomapan 100 4x5 in the past months, developing in stock ID-11 and getting very nice results:









...I was surprised with its behaviour in high contrast situations - at least when combined with ID-11, the result was pretty good. I will develop the next batch in Rodinal and see how this works out.

I've been shooting Fomapan 100 & 200 around the Aegean Turkey & Greece (so same conditions) and found it copes very well with the bright harsh lighting, gives me similar contarst to Tmax or Delta 100. However I do need to halve the box speed and cut development to approx 70% compared to other films.

Back in the spring I shot a lot of Fomapan in southern Spain and again it's just a case of learning how to tame it.

Ian

[Ian Gordon Bilson]

If the OP is concerned about reciprocity,he could consider Fuji ACROS 100 ;no compensation to 120 seconds,+1/2 F 120 to 1000sec.
Not a 'cheap' film though.
Regarding Shanghai 100/4x5 - anybody tested its reciprocity failure ?

[atlcruiser]

Regarding Shanghai 100/4x5 - anybody tested its reciprocity failure ?

I did not do any exhaustive tests but I treated it like FP4 and that seemed about right

[cyberjunkie]

Probably made by Filmotec, although if you needed to know for certain you'd have to ask. http://www.wephota.de/fotogra.htm



25 or 100. I've got about 250 sheets of half-plate 25 ISO film in my fridge that needs using.

Yes, of course.
25 and 100.
IIRC the two are made by different companies.
Knowing for sure would help with development times.

have fun

CJ

[gliderbee]

shanghai is out of china and i buy it on e bay direct. if you buy a bunch it is not at all expensive for what it is.

can you give a link? I can't find it ...

thanks,
Stefan

[thicktheo]

can you give a link? I can't find it ...

two ebay.com links:
shanghai 4x5" 25 sheets
shanghai 4x5" 50 sheets

cheers. :-)

[miss_emma_jade]

Probably where I've scanned it and stitched it in photoshop . That's all.