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Fast Films

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Anyone remember using fast films? They had a character all of their own, fine grain not being one of them.

Royal X Pan in 120 size only was 1250 ASA.

Kodak High Speed Recording Film 2475 was something between 1000 and 64,000 ASA depending on what you did with it. I think for the latter you processed it for six weeks at 24C..... :lol:

Agfapan 1000 was a nice film with lovely tonal gradation.

There were some colour ones too, all for slides.

High Speed Ektachrome was a modest 160 ASA but not a bad film.

GAF 500 was truly dreadful IMHO, but fast.

3M had a fast Tungsten film too, but I cannot recall its speed. Never used it.

Now we just take a digital image and decide what to make it look like afterwards. How things have changed.



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John
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