I received back the negatives for this film alongside some for Rollei and Fujifilm B&W films and looking at them the Svema ones looked less well exposed. The film itself is the thinnest and flimsiest I've ever encounter and the frames were unnumbered. After processing and reversing them, however, I was very pleasantly surprised. The grain was fine and the images captured lots of detail. There was also good contrast. While it coped with shooting in dark spaces pretty well, it clearly likes a bit more light. It tends to block out blacks and burn out lighter areas but nevertheless I liked the images I got back. They had a nice character to them- well, more than one character to them as many of the images look like they have been shot on different film stocks. A good fun film to experiment with, with a rather retro vibe, but perhaps not the first choice for a reliably exposed image. I shot these with a Nikon F5 which tends to meter exceptionally well. 24mm lens.

I put this through my Olympus Trip 35. I managed a few nice shots with not too much grain and some nice contrast but it varies a lot depending on the light and, as usual, is probably better when it's brighter. I would give it another go for sure.

It is possible that something went wrong in the lab as my roll of Svema 400 came severely underexposed. Or maybe my camera got the DX code wrong, I don't know. The result was quite dark so I had to brighten up the image while scanning hence the gritty, grainy look (I think). But other than that it looks like it's a rather regular, black and white film but costs £12 for 24 frames. Sure, its packaging looks really cool and having a film produced in Ukraine on machines inherited from the former major Soviet producer gives you unlimited free drinks on every party (right?) but in my opinion, it's not worth it. If it was 36 frames long, maybe I'd try it again but right now I really can't justify the cost.

To start with I did under develop this film by about 1 min from with I can tell and I am kicking myself.
But I did get 3 or 4 great shots from this and I will be ordering more for the winter. The film is slightly thin and was not the easy to load into the tank.

But even from these results you can see just how good it is. The grain is very fine for a 400ISO film and the contrast is high (the things I like in a film). comes highly reccomended.

I accidentally got some real spooky ones which i was very happy with. Complete accident, but thats all my nice photos are ahahah i suck at photography.