Thanks so much for your kind comment. I'm really glad that you can appreciate the time and effort that Jules and I put into it. Hope you could get something from it!

Thanks for your kind feedback. Glad to see you enjoyed it and found our video helpful. :)

Thank you for your feedback and for appreciating the effort which went into creating this video. Glad to hear that you liked it! :)

Thanks for your comment, Will. As always, we really appreciate your feedback! :)

Thanks for your comment and for appreciating our effort. :)

Thanks so much for your positive feedback. Glad to hear that you liked the review. Let us know how development in HC110 worked out. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts. :)

Thanks, Kenny. Glad to see that you appreciate our review and the amount of thought that went into it. :)

Thanks a lot for your comment, Matthew! We really appreciate it. :)

Alexander Corne Cool. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did. :)

David Thrower You’re welcome. Glad you like it. :)

JourneysEnd1750 Thanks a lot for your kind comment. We really appreciate it and are glad to see that you subscribed.

Thanks a lot for your kind words and feedback. We really appreciate it, especially since this film required so much effort. :)

Marcel Schepers Thanks for your comment. Glad you liked it. Enjoy trying Pancro! :)

Thanks sooooooo much. :)

Henry Chavez Thanks a lot. Happy to hear that! :)

Thanks so much, Richard. We really appreciate it. :)

Miguel Mueller Thanks so much for your elaborate comment. Happy to hear that our recommendations were useful and that you like using the film. :)

Thanks for your feedback, Dhiraj. :)

johanglindgren Thanks for your comment. Glad you enjoyed our comparison to the unedited scan. Have fun trying this film with other developers. It should really make quite a difference with a 4x5” negative.

Dj Toman Thanks so much for your kind words. Jules and I really appreciate it. We just take our time and slowly build up this channel and learn along the way. My earlier videos were certainly not on the same production level as the ones we are releasing by now. ;)

It's a brilliant channel. Keep it up!

Thanks a lot for your comment. Yes, it's really well-suited for prints. :)

Thanks so much for your comment! Glad you appreciate all the prints. To be honest, Jules is the one who drew my attention to the wonderful experience of doing your own prints and the kind of opportunities this brings about. I'm getting increasingly interested ever since. And yes, a bulk version for 35mm would be nice indeed.

I was able to print for the first time in years today even done a shot from my roll of pancro too and I'm so pleased with the experience

That's awesome! :)

Thanks so much for your comment, Greg. Looking forward to your photos! Merry Christmas and enjoy your holidays shooting some Pancro 400. :)

Thanks so much for your comment. And yes, go for the enlarger! :)

Thanks a lot for your kind comment. :)

Thanks so much for your kind comment and link to your own sample shots. :) You are probably aware that we were exclusively testing the 120 version of this film which naturally turns out less grainy than the 35mm version. Just in case you are looking for less grain, trying Pancro 400 as medium format film might be interesting. :)

I've been really keen to try it in medium format for a while now, but it's relying on my borrowing a suitable camera. I very nearly bought a Yashicamat 124 recently (I'm kicking myself that I didn't buy it in the end, it was in beautiful condition) with the intention of trying the 120. When I can borrow one, I will definately give it a go. In the mean time, my 35mm rolls of it arrived this morning so Christmas photos are all good to go!

The Hat Ah, the Yashica Mat 124G is indeed an incredible camera. Also a great way to get into medium format. Take a look at my review video (one of the earliest videos) if you’re interested.

I'll have a watch now. I'm still kicking myself for not buying it. A friend was selling it online and offered it to me in exchange for a 30m bulk roll of HP5. It was really tempting, but the roll was half of what the camera solld for in the end and I didn't want to shot change him. Likely going to get a Yashica FX-D which he's restored though which will be quite interesting to play with.

Are you kidding? Run the film through your fingers? Hmmm.

@@ctrentelmanHi - yeah - been using film/processing/printing for 40 years - the scissor finger wipe works incredibly well. Obviously you haven't been eating sausages or fish and chips with your fingers before you do it, but there's little natural grease between your fingers. It was a technique used by HCB's printer and was also widely used by old photo-dogs working in the newspaper print trade. Try it!

Thanks for your vote of confidence and great feedback, Yosep. We are glad to hear that you liked our video! And, of course, we also hope that our little channel keeps growing a bit more. :)

Thanks a lot for your feedback, Joan. Glad to see that you appreciate all the effort we put into this film. Thank you also for sharing your own first experiences which appear to be in line with ours. I actually like the fact that it provides such a flat "foundation" for either scanning or printing. Looking forward to your results with Rollei Supergrain. You should share them somewhere. :)

Timothy Anderson Thanks for your comment. Yes, that’s true. The Yashica is a wonderful little camera. I have a review of it up on the channel if you’re interested. :)

I used a Yashica Mat 124G back in the early 90's in a photography course at The University of Texas, along with Kodak T-Max 400, Ilford HP5, and Agfapan films (even tried some positive films) with the built-in meter, and got some good results...I'm looking to get back into MF, and regret getting rid of my old Pentacon I had with 3 lenses...Thank you for your prompt replies, and I hope you both have a great holiday season.

Thanks so much! :)

Thanks. :)

CHRISTOPHER FOX Thanks a lot for your comment. Glad you liked the Acurol results.

Thanks so much for your lovely comment, Nick! We really appreciate it, especially since it's coming from you. To be honest, both Jules and I are not terribly fond of pushing film and did not try it for Pancro 400. Otherwise we would have included it in the review, of course. ;) Sorry! Something you need to try for yourself. ;)

I completely understand. Pushing film isnt for everyone. haha. If/when I get my hands on some of this I will give it a shot and see for myself. Thanks brotha

Hi Marvin! Thanks for your feedback. And, of course, it makes us happy to read that we piqued your interest in Spur Acurol-N. Enjoy exploring this very nice developer. :)

@@AnalogInsights Coming back to this video after a year and saw my comment and your response. I bought some Acurol-N shortly after I mentioned it here and I must say, that it might be my favourite developer at the moment. I have no way of fully appreciating the sharpness, but the scans from the flatbet scanner are as sharp as I can get it. I tried it now with HP5+, Acros and RPX 25 in medium format and Tri-X and APX 100 (new emulsion) in 35mm (if not more) and I liked almost everything I got with it. Of course there is much testing to be done on my part to get the images to look exactly like I prefer it, but it's a good starting point I think. I would like to try Pancro with Acurol-N and I'll take your developing times as a starting point because I liked what you got with 1+50 @ 13-15min and I found no information online from the massive dev chart or the official SPUR datasheet. Let me know if you have done further tests with this combination. Anyway, thanks again for making this video!

Hi Xavier, thanks for your feedback. I have actually tried Rollei Superpan 200 a couple of times lately and am very pleased with the results. I will probably not end up creating such an in-depth review but maybe I can do a shorter video (or section within a video) on it. Would that help? Are you interested in anything specific? I really liked the negative's sharpness and fine grain this film brought about. I usually developed it in D-76 if I remember correctly. :)

Paul Moffett Thanks so much for your kind comment. Our audio equipment is actually quite limited. I am using an inexpensive Rode Smartlav+ recording to my iPhone and the sometimes difficult atmo sounds from our small Lumix GX80.

Thanks for your lovely comment. Yes, good spot. I was indeed holding my breath since this shot was taken at 1/30th of a second. :) And yes, I sometimes get quite excited about seeing negatives for the first time. This will probably never cease to amaze me.

Thanks a lot for your comment. Interesting to hear about all your experience with different film stocks and developers. A real fan of Rodinal it seems. :) The "temple" is close to Regensburg in Germany. :)

Thanks for your feedback and interesting comment. Glad to hear that you also enjoy Pancro over HP5+ and other prior favorites. I still need to test Ferrania P30 as well - once it's actually available. Interesting choice of developers. I might take a look at these at some point. Thanks for your input! :)

Thanks for your comment and please excuse my late response. Sure, I get all my development equipment at either Macodirect or Fotoimpex. Hope this helps.

ZommBleed Thanks a lot. :) Well, this video was really a lot of work so not something we could easily replicate for all other important films unfortunately. :)

asparis145149 Thanks for your thoughtful and kind comment. Please excuse my late response. As you mention, what you describe is a typical pull process, so the opposite of pushing. For Acurol-N, the company Spur recommends shooting films at certain ISO and developing times in order to get a certain contrast on your negatives. In the case of Spur Acurol-N, to achieve standard contrast you often need to shoot a ISO 400 film at ISO 200 or 250 for instance. The same holds true for other film speeds as well. So the developer needs a bit more light to achieve standard contrast and this therefore differs from a standard pull process. I hope I managed to bring this point across. There are certainly much better explanations on Spur's website. :)

Ah. I will go and look at the Spur website. From your explanation, though, it sounds like Spur is similar to some of the old "fine grain" developers like Microdol. The common explanation of those developers was that they contained solvent chemicals that "ate' the edges off the silver grains after they developed, making the grains smaller and softer, but resulting in less density. So needing more exposure. (I have no idea whether that explanation is correct, or just an old wive's tale.) Could be that they were just less active developers that produced less density for a given exposure and therefore less grain. Anyway, thanks for your reply.

Paul Giverin Hi Paul, my Pancro negatives which were developed in D-76 looked excellent with 17 minutes developing time for 120 film. Maybe there was a problem with the temperature? Besides that, I have no idea since the developing times are the same for the 35mm version. Or some unintentional overexposure?

Hi Max, the temperature was 20 degrees when the developer went in. It was quite a hot day so maybe the temperature was higher than 20 degrees after 17 minutes. I will also shoot another roll in another body in case the metering was out. Thanks.

Thanks for your comment, Lonnie. Yes, Bergger Pancro 400 is available as 35mm film and has been for quite a while. My friend Jules does not use the color head of his enlarger for printing color. The focus is on black and white prints only. :)

Hi Franz! Danke für dein Feedback. Wir haben zugegebenermaßen auch darüber nachgedacht, den Entwickler von Bergger mit aufzunehmen, uns dann aber dagegen entschieden, da wir das Video bzw. unser Vorhaben nicht noch komplexer machen wollten. Es war wirklich ein kleiner Kraftakt, dieses Video mit all seinen Aspekt sauber zusammen zu bringen. :)

Marqelexsis Amaro A Durst M605. Yet we're not using the built-in filters but Ilford multi-grade filters. Hope this helps.

Jono Domongos Thanks a lot for your feedback. The app is called Massive Dev Chart. :)

thanks! You make my day! ❤️ Analog Insights

REFIGUY69 Hey! Welcome to medium format and, I'm assuming film photography to some extent. Different developers bring about different characteristics and thus affect grain, sharpness, dynamic range, tonality, etc. if your negatives. It therefore makes sense to not just test a film with one developer but see how it behaves with different ones. Does that answer your question?

Yes it makes sense. Its pretty much what I thought. Although I'm not at the stage of developing my own film yet I'm sure the place that i get it done at has experience with it. (since1974) and I could request it for a nominal fee. They Push, Pull, Cross Process and Split tone. At this stage its practice shots with Zeiss Nettar as Im more adept with 35mm film and digital. Thanks for liking my Instagram as well @h0bes_0riginals

Thanks for your comment and excellent recommendations. I haven't tried or experimented with Ilford Perceptol yet but will definitely put it on my list. Your description sounds quite promising. :) Jules and I both use MACO ecofix as fixer that can be had inexpensively at www.macodirect.de if you're in Europe. This fixer works perfectly fine for me.

Thank you for the info; I've seen eco-friendly fixers but didn't thought much of it since the used fixer either way contains the unfixed silver which is really not eco... but I'll try it out and if not, go back to Kodafix. Right now I'm experimenting a bit with color film and color printing (8 color ink-jet). It's really good fun!