Several months ago, I bought a 9-1/2 inch by 500 foot roll of this film off eBay for $2.50 plus shipping. Expiry is fairly recent (couple years). Figured if it works, cool. If not, no real big loss. It is estar-base, but kinda on the thin side (4.1 mil as opposed to 7 mil). I figured shooting 5X7 I may be ok. If worse-to-worse, I figured I could sticky the middle. Realize it has the anti-halation backing, so before dev, pre-wash, use red safe-light, etc. Got that much. (also found out OA & OC filters definitely do not work) BUT Questions:
Anybody ever use any of this stuff for shooting?
Approximate speed for 5X7, 240+ lens? Or pinhole?
Development? I have on hand D-19 D-76 Perceptol and a couple paper dev's.
I know on the lith, I use near-exhausted dektol at 1:9 for dev. Works pretty good. Does this shoot anything like the Kodak or Arista Lith? Should I find a dumpster?