Film Format: 35mm Film Colour & Type: Black & White ISO: 50 Grain: Fine Contrast: High Colour Balance: Not Applicable Exposure Latitude: Wide / Very Wide Latitude DX Coding: Yes Film Development Process: Black and White Perfect for: 👪 Portraits, 🏔️ Landscapes, and 🚦 Street Photography
Description
Ilford Pan F 35mm film is a classic black and white film that produces stunningly sharp and detailed images. It has a fine grain structure that makes it perfect for capturing intricate details and textures.
With a low film speed Pan F Plus will require plenty of light to work its magic, but it will reward you with images that SNAP with sharpness! Pan F gives you very pleasant soft skin tones and nice contrast for portraiture, and rich blacks for gorgeous shadows.
Features:
- ISO 50 film speed - Fine grain structure - Wide exposure latitude - Suitable for all 35mm film cameras (with an ISO 50 setting)
Benefits:
- Produces sharp and detailed images with rich tonality - Ideal for capturing intricate details and textures - Performs well in a variety of lighting conditions
Ilford was founded in 1879 in the English town of the same name. They are B&W royalty in the photography industry thanks to their 140-year heritage and their support for photographers with chemicals and development as well as film. In the mid-20th Century they produced several well-regarded camera lines (including one given to Princess Elizabeth that was later stolen!) but today they are focused on producing the best films and development processes that they can.
For more information about the brand check out our bio of Ilford
When you buy your camera film from us we can ship it across the UK, Europe, USA, New Zealand, Australia and Canada (more countries planned soon!) So buy your Ilford Pan F Plus 35mm Film today and dive back into the fun of 35mm film photography!
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Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Beginners, Portraits, Landscapes, Pinhole/Long-Exposure, Architecture, Travel, Studio Work
Accreditation Handles:Instagram
Four to five stars
Lovely quality when used carefully. Be very careful not to overdevelop, as it blows the highlights. It is often a good idea to overexposed by one stop and then underdevelop by 30%.
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Dave P. (Bromsgrove, GB)
Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Portraits, Street Photography, Pinhole/Long-Exposure, Architecture, Studio Work
Accreditation Handles:Dave P
Still here after all these years
Ilford Pan F was one of the first black and white films I used when I first developed and printed my films when did my GCSE and A level photography courses back in the 80s and when I returned to film photography after a substantial break post COVID, I was extremely pleased to see it's still available today. A high class punchy professional grade film that has recently become available in sheet film too. However it does degrade rather quickly so not one to leave in your camera once used. Shoot quick and develop quick.
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Matt C. (Blackpool, GB)
Perfect for:Portraits, Street Photography, Architecture, Travel
Accreditation Handles:@mattshutterphotography
Lots of nice detail in the shadows
Decent film - lovely detail in portraits. Natural light fairly contrasty.
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Matthew D. (Hackney, GB)
Perfect for:Great All-Rounder, Beginners, Portraits, Landscapes, Pinhole/Long-Exposure, Architecture, Creative/Abstract, Travel, Studio Work
Accreditation Handles:Instagram
Strong contrast and acutance
Pan F has great acutance and contrast, especially in developers like Rodinal. Sometimes a little underdevelopment is necessary to tame contrast, but by all means but yourselves a roll!
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Chris B. (Hunstanton, GB)
Perfect for:Landscapes, Travel
Accreditation Handles:@chrismojo
PanF round the harbour needed a tweak or two
I went up Overy Staithe and finished off a roll of PanF round the harbour while I was up there.
Now the scans were flawless when they came back from the Wondies, but there was a bit of a but to it.
As in fine detail but very contrasty to start off with, as in not a great deal of tonal range between black and a bit less black, and white and a bit more white.
This was more or less correctable in post, and once I got that sorted I was stunned by the detail even after giving the dynamic range a serious bum-kick.
Chief Wondie Paul's done one of his many videos on this here film, and he says you need to get it processed promptly to get the best out of it.
Um, the camera I shot this on had been sitting on a shelf with a half-finished roll in for weeks and weeks before I got round to finishing it so maybe that was the issue.
Nice results in the end with a bit of tinkering under the hood.
