{"id":926,"date":"2022-06-12T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T21:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/?p=926"},"modified":"2022-08-30T19:28:46","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T00:28:46","slug":"flashbacks-of-troublesome-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/2022\/06\/12\/flashbacks-of-troublesome-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashbacks of Troublesome Film"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The very first film I developed was Arista EDU Ultra 400. One thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet is that Fomapan and Arista EDU Ultra are the same films. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I first started developing film, the batch of Arista I was using was slightly expired. I incorrectly concluded that the film lost sensitvity, and that was the reason why the film negatives were so thin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been shooting Fomapan 100 and 200, so I decided to pick up some rolls of Fomapan 400 to see if it was any different than my previous experience with Arista. I turns out I had the same problem as with what I started with: the negatives were too thin and there is no shadow detail. The film was fresh, no where near it’s expiration date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve re-watched The Naked Photographer’s YouTube channel on film reviews for Fomapan 400 (link here<\/a>). It turns out that his tests revealed that this film is really a 250 ISO film. It all makes sense why I was having problems. (By the way, his video series is very useful if you’re trying a film for the first time. I highly recommend watching his series.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, I have three more rolls, so I’ll try a 250 exposure level the next time I use this film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Development Details<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
  • Film: Fomapan 400<\/li>
  • Camera ISO setting: 400<\/li>
  • Developer: Kodak XTol<\/li>
  • Development Time: 7 Minutes<\/li>
  • Development Agitation: Ilford Style (4x inversions every minute)<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The very first film I developed was Arista EDU Ultra 400. One thing I don’t think I’ve mentioned yet is that Fomapan and Arista EDU Ultra are the same films. When I first started developing film, the batch of Arista I was using was slightly expired. I incorrectly concluded that the film lost sensitvity, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,58,13,25],"tags":[6,113,70,106,59,37,26],"class_list":["post-926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-black-and-white","category-kodak-xtol","category-outdoor","category-problems","tag-black-and-white","tag-cheap-shots","tag-exposure","tag-fomapan-400","tag-kodak-xtol","tag-outdoors","tag-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":935,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926\/revisions\/935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfabz.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}