Kodak High-speed Infrared film, also known as HIE, is a black-and-white film with extended sensitivity in the infrared zone. It was discontinued in 2007, and all that’s available for the last decade has expired a long time ago.
If you’re developing black-and-white film on your own, you’ve probably heard about those one-shot developers. Mix ’em, use ’em and trash ’em, because they got depleted in that one development process, right?
Kodak announced a price reduction on Tri-X 400 black and white film, up to 30%.
Overconfidence of a lazy person or “nah, I don’t need a tripod, how hard can shooting the same frame twice even be?”, a cautionary tale.
First film in this project was shot in a span of just two days (even though it’s a monthly film), but the developing process robbed me of at least a month of my life in terms of stress and annoyance, so it all balances out.
I’ve started the project “Twelve months of film” in 2024, and decided to write about my experience. So..let’s start from the top.
The second part of my adventure with Kodak Technical Pan. TL;DR: I shot the only roll of Technical Pan I’ve had in a Zenza Bronica GS-1 and developed it despite having no Technidol, its designated developer.
Yesterday evening, I developed two rolls of KosmoFoto Agent Shadow, 400ASA film, 17:30 min in Rodinal 1+50, minus some time for 22°C. Perfectly uneventful, both rolls turned out just fine. But I wouldn’t write a blog post about uneventful development…
It’s been some time since the announcement; new Kentmere films have arrived in the European shops. My initial speculation about the price was around 6€ for a roll, so it wouldn’t be able to out-price Fomapan films. I was almost right – prices are closer …
After a short social media campaign, Ilford finally revealed something new: Kentmere Pan 100 and 400 films are now available in 120 format. Cheap, reliable and dependable film in medium format is always a good thing!
After a few years of hiatus, I’ve dug up my flatbed scanner, the Canon CanoScan 8800F, the only working scanner I have that can scan medium-format film. It needed some maintenance; all four glass surfaces needed a thorough cleaning, and I had to remember how …
There’s not much to say about development – I have only the traces of my favourite developer, Agfa Rodinal, but I have a few litres of fresh Kodak Xtol developer, so it was pretty obvious why I chose Xtol – I had it.
We had a week to shoot a roll (or sheet) of Ilford FP4 film, and I chose 135 format roll, with a full 36 images to go through.
