Flexible, fine grain with exceptional sharpness even when pushed higher than faster films.

None known, one of the best films.

Pan F is one of my favorite films, disagree with notion that it can not be used for street photography. We did tests with this film and found that it out performed faster films when pushed in processing with sharpness retention and low grain. The additional contrast can be taken out with low contrast paper or these days with digital scan and change in Photoshop. This goes back to the 70's when we pushed film to the limit in tests. It is worth experimenting with, best wishes,

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We processed these ourselves in a fully kited professional lab. We did not have to pay for the materials so not sure what the price was at the time.

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None unless there was a 25 ASA film that we pushed as well.

The fine grain and price.

A bit slow for anything else than landscape/fine art and portraiture.

I bought this film initially for a super fine grained film to shoot at Yosemite in my Canon EOS Elain 2/E . The roll I shot came out amazing, I was able to make near grainless 11x14" prints out of a 35mm negative! Aside from that I did shoot everything on a tripod and had it lab processed.

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Everything, I love this film.

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Smooth, very smooth. This film is pretty much grainless even in 35mm to 11x14- 16x20. I haven't enlarged anything in medium format yet. Give me a couple of weeks, I have no doubt I will be very happy with the results.

Extremely Sharp Extremely Fine Grain Good In-Studio Film

Very High Contrast Not Suited for General/Street Photography

I can see how this film would be useful for certain types of photography, but I do not like it for street photography. The film is too contrasty my needs. I wanted to try a slow film for a shallow DOF. I developed the film according to Ilford website specs but still got very high contrast negatives. In a studio with completely controlled lighting, I imagine this film could be a very useful addition to one's photographic arsenal. The film is very sharp with imperceptible grain.

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I generally use Kodak Tri-X at EI 200 developed in TMax 1:4 at 68F for 5 minutes. This combination yields beautiful negatives and pleasing contrast. I'll stick with what works for me.

For one, its panchromatic, so it much more tonally balanced than other conventional films. I've found that films such as HP5, and all 3 Deltas and T-Maxs(100,400,3200), have problems when rendering red light. They always seem to render it as a middleish gray. For those who are wondering, yes, you can blow it up to 16x20 and get less grain than most films at 8x10. Even when using a 5 filter (170 magenta), I had absolutely no complaints. The 16x20s produced off of 35mm negs rival the sharpness and grain of those produced off of larger formats (even 4x5).

The recpirocity failure is much more noticeable, and it is definalely not the most versatile film out there. It takes a few rolls to really get used to it, and I wouldn't recomend it for use in a point and shoot camera, or for those who like to buy Canon Rebels, leave them permenantly on program mode, and don't know much about shutter speeds and aperature settings.

I'm constantly experimenting with different films, asking others about what has worked for them, etc. I've always been an Ilford user. I find that they have much better quality control in their films. I've used nearly every Ilford Film, except for FP4. I usually hate film grain, and I need the finest tonal variations for my shots. I was using HP5, because of its ease of development, price, and its not a finicky film, so you can tweak the devo times pretty easily. PanF 50 has been my favorite film by far. While it is slow, it definately takes some skill to use, since you have to have a rather steady hand, and a good understanding of how film reacts in lower light. I mainly shoot architecture, and I use a Nikon N80 with a Sigma 12-24mm wide angle zoom, so I can get good depth of field while shooting hand held with this film (I can shoot down to 1/10th of a second without getting camera shake).

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whats the point, its film.

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Ilford Pan 100, Delta 100, Kodak Plus X-Pan 125.

Fine grained, wonderful tonality, easy to process, reasonably sharp.

other than I wish this was a 100 iso film, or that it could push to 400 iso without more grain the HP5+ nothing wrong with it.

Now that Agfa Pan 25 is starting to get hard to find I needed to look for an alternative. The store normally use over stocked and gave me a deal on a brick and I am impressed with this film. It is very fined grained, so much so it rivals the newer T grained films like Delta and Acros but since this is still an old fashioned film it has Very good tonality. Nothing much else to say about it, other than it does push sorta ok but then all the wonderful small grains get lumpy. It develops well, rather thick tough base and easy to print, I have made a grain less print from FP4+ to 16x20" but I can't do larger myself to see how well this will enlarge but I'm sure it will do better. Ilford films are cheap, yet rather good and among the best B&W out there.

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FP4+, Delta 100, acros, agfa pan 25

Good contrast No grain Sharp Image Quality Good value for the money The best film I've ever tried

Slower film, best used outdoors

A wonderful fine-grain, sharp, good contrast film that alows 8x10 and 11x14 prints to be made with almost no grain. Discovered it just a month ago while browsing through a little camera shop in Calgary. What a discovery! I was shooting floral close-ups at the time and the print quality that film gave was exceptional. Excellent value for the money, I would recommend it to anyone.

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for film???

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You can make 11x14 enlargements with this stuff and it still prints crisp and clear with little graininess and good resolution.

It's kinda slow. Not for indoor photography. Very intolerant of even slight (1/3 stop) over-exposure, in my experience.

Oh My God.

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It's film.

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missing grain the slower you shoot the finer the grain

$100 to someone who can find one!!!

could someone help me?? i can't find my grain!!!! i was first given this film for free when i first started because i ONLY shot fuji neopan. now i don't shot anything other than pan f. when shooting scenics i usually shoot at ISO 6 and then finish it up in rodinal 1 + 25 print on warm tone and get prints that ansel adams would love to make. oh yeah 8x10 negs are nice too.

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hp5 fp4 tmax agfa pan just about every film out there

Fine fine fine grain. Ease of processing... much more lenient than Tech Pan.

love it.

WOW. Fantastically fine grain is great for englargements above 11x14. 6mins in Rodinal 1+25 gives great results. will definitely use again for outdoor/nature.

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