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Subject: [Leica] Fomapan 400 film
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2019 08:24:56 +0200
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I have similar experiences. It is not a bad film (made in the Czech 
Republic), but it is on the grainy side.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 9 Aug 2019, at 08:20, Christopher Crawford <chris at 
> chriscrawfordphoto.com> wrote:
> 
> I tried it years ago. It has nice tonality but it is grainy compared to 
> Tri-X or HP-5. The only truly bad thing about it is that it has a weak 
> anti-halation layer, so there's a lot of flare visible around transitions 
> between dark and light objects.
> 
> D-76 1+1 gave me the best results.
> 
> 
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> ?On 8/9/19, 2:02 AM, "LUG on behalf of Dan Khong via LUG" 
> <lug-bounces+chris=chriscrawfordphoto.com at leica-users.org on behalf of 
> lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
>    Friends
> 
>    I have two rolls of FomaPan 400 film arriving from B&H. I have not used
>    them before and will appreciate some advice from your experiences. 
> Thanks.
> 
>    Dan K.
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In reply to: Message from dankhong at gmail.com (Dan Khong) ([Leica] Fomapan 400 film)
Message from chris at chriscrawfordphoto.com (Christopher Crawford) ([Leica] Fomapan 400 film)