I first heard about this film from Kevin Smith's seminal film Clerks, although back then you couldn't buy it for still photography. In recent years this BnW cine film has been available for still shooter.

Although a 250 speed film, I prefer to shoot it at 400. I find the contrast a more to my liking at this speed.

This is such a delight to use, especially with a good amount of light, the blacks are inky and mids and pleasantly present. Shame it’s only 24 exposures!

I have to admit I put off shooting this film for a while. I always thought it looked too dirty and grungey, in retrospect, I realise now the majority of the examples were street photography with the film pushed to 800-3200 which is something I probably wouldn't do. I shot the medium format variant from Cinestill earlier this year and I fell in love with the results I got. I thought I would try a roll of double x in 35mm before taking the plunge into bulk loading.

The has a really nice tonal range and I like the fact it can be scanned flat to push its contrast in post. It's not as sharp as other low-speed films and it does have more grain than other similar films but I don't mind that, it's part of the character of the film.

I did have a slight issue with this roll. Once developed the top of each frame was ever so slightly brighter (when inverted) than the bottom making me think potentially there may have been some slight light leak when either rolling the film or the canaster was slightly damaged. This didn't matter as I was only testing the film in this smaller format and I liked the results so hopefully this stock might become my new main stock!

Reminded me of Tri-X, with less grain but more solid contrast. Just wishing this was still in continuous production for daily use

First time I've tried this film and must admit that I was impressed. As I was expecting it to be a higher contrast emulsion, I loaded into my 1950's Leica iif, as vintage lenses tend to give softer contrast than modern ones, and took it out on a local walk. I shot it at ISO 200, metering with my phone, and then looked on the Massive Dev chart for development settings. As I'm not the greatest fan of prominent grain, I opted for Ilfotec LC29 at 1+29 for 8 minutes with normal agitation. The resulting negatives looked a good density for conventional printing. I have scanned the film and the results have good detail and contrast with pleasant grain. I have printed a few of the images in the darkroom and, again, the detail and tonal range are good at 10x8". The grain is less visible than the scans but not intrusive and I would certainly use this film again.

This was an entirely new film to me but, given it's history in the movie industry, I was keen to try it. Although I took a meter reading at the beginning of my trip I continued to use experience with the changng light as well as taking photos straight into the light. The quality ans lattude were more than adequate for my taste and only one shot wasn't useable due to me forgetting to focus with the manual lens. Highly recommended

I am currently putting together a large black and white comparison for 35mm in studio and was very curious to see how this compared to not only the standard black and white films in this ISO territory but also one of my favourites, Cinestill BWXX.

As expected it shared a number of qualities with the cinestill, I was really happy with the results and will definitely be using this again regularly!

In part I brought this to teach someone black and white photography. What I found from this film it has an amazing tolerance to different contrast. With stunning blacks, wights and midtone. You can even get stunning clouds without a filter.

The film is rather grainy for a 200ISO film but still good.

Since getting back into film photography a couple of years ago I have really enjoyed trying out the wide range of B&W films that are around. I was really impressed with Orwo UN54 100 which, like Eastman Double X is repurposed movie film. It was then I found the Eastman stock and had to give it a try.
Quite simply I am really impressed! If you are in any way interested in shooting film then do give this a try. I shot my roll over Christmas in some really poor lighting conditions and I love the results. I used my Canon AV1 and many of the shots I took were stopped right down to f4 and below.
I took a mixture of landscape/ seascapes and architectural shots. The landscapes were great but the architectural shots were just superb, sharp, great contrast with amazing depth. I develop at home and my film was dev’d in Rodinal 1:20 for 5 minutes - this is not the optimal developer for this film but it certainly produced some fine results. Rodinal doesn’t like agitation so I gave it one inversion at the start and then a gentle rock every minute.
I’m really excited about this film, not least because of its movie pedigree- Schindler’s List and Casino Royale but also the results I got on an test roll. I’ll try the next films in Bellini developer which is the recommended Dev and see where that goes - check out my Instagram @coastpics.co.uk for the results.

Thank you Analogue Wonderland for introducing us to this amazing film.

A great easy to use all rounder this probably isn't.

I shot a few frames indoors on a bright day and got some nice tones, but I think this does this best work outdoors.

I probably wouldn't shoot this on really bright days or in direct sunlight as it produces huge amounts of contrast.

Definitely worth playing around with. You might get some better results than I managed.

Whats not to love about a film that was used to film Schindlers List?! Great film with a fantastic traditional B&W look. Recommended.