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Response to Gigabit film?

from Wolfram Kollig (kollig@ipfdd.de)
Hello John,

to compensate you for the time testing developers for us and answering our questions, I'll try to save you from translating.

Basiclly I found 3 interessting chapters:

1) Product introduction

"Unlike classical photographie were a mixture of different silverhalogenid crystals average an value of gray , this film is supposed to give a single silverhalogenid-crystal gray value. So the lightsensitive particel is much smaller and a higher resolution can be obtained." (Sounds reasonable to me.)

"Data for 4*5" film: 25 ISO, 900 lines per mm at contrast 1:1000, panchromatic, app. 12 stop range. 50 sheet including chemestry, 150 DM+16% VAT."

2) Data sheet 35 mm film (As I do not have a 4*5" camera) "filmbase: Polyester; sensitivity: panchrom. slightly reduced red; resolution: 720 lines/mm (contrast 1:1000, speed 40 ISO)" "Development: Make sure reels do not contain photo-flo residues!, use Gigabit chemistry 1:9, 250 ml per film, app. 6 min at 20C, agiation every 20 sec. for gamma 0.5-0.6. CHEMESTRY NOT SUITABLE FOR ROTATION DEVELOPMENT! Air volume should be 60-100 ml in filled tank, otherwise use more developer solution! Too much air volume is not good. Stop with water for 10 sec. Fix 10-20 secs! Smaller crystals fix faster. Wash for 5 mins. Final rinse with destilled water." (This avoids getting photo-flo on the reels) " Neither the lens on the camera nor the lens on the enlarger should be used stopped down more than 5.6"

3) Data sheet 4*5" Please send a 4*5" first!

Generally it sounds interesting, but for me 300 lines per mm Technical Pan is fine and some of my favourite pictures are TMZ @ 6400 in Tetenal developers.

Wolfram

(posted 8658 days ago)

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