Lovely film stock and still fairly cheap, been great as a beginner of medium format to have a good looking yet affordable film to shoot with.

While I do like Fomapan’s 200 and 400 offerings, I lean slightly towards Kentmere at those speeds for a budget offering. But this 100 is absolutely cracking, even before you factor in the price.

Run through a Yashica 635, and developed with ID-11 at 1+3 to see what the sharpness would be like, while hoping it wouldn’t create distracting grain on a 100, and I was blown away by the results.

Add in the brilliant retro packaging (just switch to that permanently Fomapan!) and this might be my new, frequent shooting, medium format option.

I love Fomapan film, I always use the 200 and I decided to try 400 and 100 iso films and they're just as good. Versatile in different lighting and good results and also cheaper! Plus I love the retro packaging 😍

I bought this 120 film to test my 1938 Selfix-20.
I used it during a weekend in Liverpool, staying at the original Liverpool airport, where the Beatles landed after their successful American tour. As the camera was untested I had to judge settings, but the film worked well, with additional bonus that the box looks great in the display too!

Quite a nice black and white film. Being one of the cheaper options out there you can’t quite expect the same quality as something like HP5, and it definitely has a noticeable grain, but I think it does have a nice look to it.
(All images shot on a Kiev 6C, metered at 160 iso, and developed in HC-110)

Fomapan 100 is a well priced and affordable alternative to the more established brands, grain is well controlled and the film has a good latitude though it does lack some contrast but this can be handled either in the processing stage or in post production. But overall it is a excellent film.

This is a comparatively cheap film which processes well in HC-110 dil B and gives pleasing results. Most importantly the numbers on the back are a good solid black and show boldly through the red windows of my old folding cameras. I keep the backing papers to re roll the occasional Ilford film in a dark bag. Not had any number print through problems.
I also re roll it onto a 620 spool then back onto another 620 spool to avoid the film wave/bulge and use it in some old Kodaks. Takes about seven minutes in a dark bag after some practice. Keep it tight.
Do you know of any other 120 black and white films with black numbers rather than the pathetic dotted figures on Ilford?
I’d tried shining a little torch through the red windows until I found Fomapan!
Home processors, you’ll be delighted by the vivid green colouring of the antihalation layer that comes off into the developer, preferably one shot. You can give the film a rinse before fixing to keep your fixer clear but
all your temperatures the same. The green is just like the intriguing liquid in the giant carboys in old time chemists shop windows!

Fomapan 100 is a good all round film, it's an older emulsion so don't expect super fine grain, in saying that the grain structure however is not obtrusive. Contrast is good. I have often used Fomapan 100 for pinhole photography and for that it works well, provided that you allow double the exposure after calculating for reciprocity failure. The sample photographs included were processed in Pyrocat HD, hence slightly smoother grain. Fomapan 100 is one of my go to films, having used it from 35mm up to 5x4 with good success.

Shoot this beauty at box speed, dev in RO9 and you will be rewarded with acutance, contrast and nice meaty negs which are easy to print. And it responds well to the mid-yellow filter which is permanently stuck to the front of my camera when I shoot B&W. The bonus is that as well as being a good quality traditional-grained film you get 7 of 'em for the price of 5 of the 'major brand' ones. Jobs a good 'un.

Tried this film out on one of my walks around cartmel. Camera Bronica S2a with Zenzanon 150 mm lens exposures bracketed around F11 @1/125. Developed in Ilford LC29 diluted 1+ 19 for 6 1/2 min. Developer turns Vivid green at end of process so suggest use of a 1 shot development to avoid contaminating any stock solution. The film base is a light magenta this looks more evident in partially fixed negs ( I tend to have a look at half the fixing time ) Images easy to scan and look full of detail

I purchased this Foma 100 to use in a 1930's Ensign 'All-distance Twenty' box camera. My understanding is that the film is exactly the same as Foma Classic 100, but in a more expensive box. Unfortunately, the cheaper version was out of stock.

This film is very forgiving and captures a good amount of detail. The box camera only has a 1/30 shutter speed and only two apertures; f11 and f16. I took one accidental double exposure which came out well, I imagine that someone who sets out to take double exposures would do well with this film.

I developed this film at the same time as some Ilford 400. The Foma was MUCH easier to feed on the tank reel, it fed onto the reel on my first attempt. The Ilford I'm comparison took a lot longer and a lot of swearing. I'm unsure if this was just by chance, or if the Foma is slightly easier to handle.

I'll definitely be using this again.

This film was a blast to use, I mainly used the sunny 16 rule (no metering) and all the photos came out very well exposed. Fine grain and lovely tones. A recommendation for a sunny day!

Here's a shot from my developed roll.

Here is and example photo I took with this film

A classic design! Look a lot prettier than the current Foma box design. In my opinion, Foma should just make this the normal and current design. Shot this film with a Nettar from the 50's to make it right.