The no.10 is a fresh black and white negative panchromatic specialty film, yielding medium to high contrast, high resolution, high sharpness, fine grain and an extended spectral light sensitivity of up to 780nm.
It is hand-rolled into recycled canisters by a brand new Lithuanian brand run by Arnas Spakauskas.
Please note the unusual exposure number: 29 per roll!
This film was originally used for medium altitude aerial reconnaissance and cartographic or exploratory purposes. Now available for your creative use in 35mm format.
Brilliant infrared film. Make sure you us a R72 filter for the best effect. However still looks great with just a red or orange filter.
The film is a hard one to self develop/handle. Very curly film and very delicate. Have a couple more rolls to try and improve!
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Kris L. (Stevenage, GB)
Accreditation Handles:@lamerlad on Instagram
Unusably under-exposed
I shot two rolls of BW film about a week apart, this film and a roll of Ilford Ortho 80. They were both shot using the same camera (a Pentax K1000) and the same lenses (K30/2.8, K50/1.4 and K105/2.8). They were both sent off to the same lab for developing and scanning at the same time. The Ilford film came back with excellent tonal range, etc. This film came back so under-exposed that there is barely any image on the film. The attached picture shows the negs of the two films, this one on the left and the ortho 80 on the right. (I simply taped the neg sleeves to the window and took a hand-held snapshot). Given other reviews are positive, I'm unclear as to why this roll was a total bust. Annoying, as who knows then I'll next be in New York so I can re-shoot these?
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P.K. (Northampton, GB)
Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Beginners, Portraits, Landscapes, Street Photography, Architecture, Creative/Abstract, Travel, Studio work
So sharp
This is very contrasty black and white film, so because of that results are rather dramatic. Deep shadows, extreme contrast, frying under the sun. If you are into that, give this film a go.
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Nigel R. (York, GB)
Perfect for:Beginners, Street Photography, Architecture, Creative/Abstract
Accreditation Handles:Nigel S. Rogers
Nice definition without needing to push
I'm new to film photography, havng picked up a cheap Praktica Super SL (though it died halfway through the following roll of film) and found the results from this very pleasing indeed without needing to push the film any further stops. I'm likely to keep buying the occasional roll so that as I improve and can better gauge things I'll have more positive results per roll than I currently do. At the price though, I think it's great, and the aerial reconnaissance element to it makes for something different which really grabbed me.
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donald b. (Bexhill-on-Sea, GB)
Perfect for:Portraits, Landscapes, Architecture
Accreditation Handles:Fat bloke with a camera
your only supposed to blow the bloody door off.
now this film will not be for everyone, first off dont use it in an auto wind/rewind camera, its a reused canister and you might find its pulled the film right out of the canister. however if you dont make my rookie error you will be rewarded with some lovely tones, deep blacks rich greys, great contrast . film seem to come in odd sized reels i got 27 shots of one roll. but its all worth it this a lovely to use film .