looking for info on the actual film inside Type 55

[Hollis]

I read on here a while ago about the actual film emulsion that makes up type 55. Im not looking for info on the instant film, just what the emulsion was, if I can get it anywhere (comes in rolls I think) and any developing info as well.

Let me know

Hollis@hollisbennett.com

[Arne Croell]

I read on here a while ago about the actual film emulsion that makes up type 55. Im not looking for info on the instant film, just what the emulsion was, if I can get it anywhere (comes in rolls I think) and any developing info as well.

Let me know

Hollis@hollisbennett.com

I remember reading many years ago that it was supposedly the Panatomic-X emulsion on a special thin support. Of course Kodak stopped selling that film to consumers way before 55p/n died.

[Don Dudenbostel]

In the early 70's a Kodak rep told me it was Panatomic-x. I once exposed it at ISO 32 and process it in Microdol-X with good results.

[Glenn Thoreson]

It's Panatomic-X. You can't buy the film. It was taken off the market many years ago, then only continued to be produced under contract with Polaroid.

[Robert Hughes]

So - what would be a currently available equivalent to Panatomic X? Efke 25?

[David Beal]

Ilford Pan-F would be probably be a good place to start. Efke 25 is allegedly orthopanchromatic.

Good shooting.

/s/ David

[D. Bryant]

Ilford Pan-F would be probably be a good place to start. Efke 25 is allegedly orthopanchromatic.

Good shooting.

/s/ David

Unfortunately Pan F isn't made in sheet sizes.

Don Bryant

[Steve Hamley]

You can probably still get Pan-X aerial in rolls, but it's about $600 for a 9.5" x 250' roll. I bought some earlier this year from HAS imaging in Dayton OH. If you search you'll find the thread with their number.

The film is a thin-base product that seems to me exactly the same as Type 55, both in thickness and in appearance as developed. The product number is 2412.

Cheers, Steve

[Erick Regnard]

Hi Steve,
Could you let me know their address and contact details (if you have it) as i'm in Australia and it would help me a lot.
Cheers,
Erick

[Tim Povlick]

Hi Erick,

Their contact info is:

http://www.hasimages.com/

Having developed type 55 in regular developer and the PanatomicX-II, they sure seem like totally different emulsions to me. The PanX-II is very contrasty / micro-grain. 55 is low contrast / grainy.

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TiM

[Steve Hamley]

Eric,

See post #29

http://www.largeformatphotography.info/forum/showthread.php?t=45354&page=3&highlight=Pan-X

Cheers, Steve