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.