[LargeFormat] J & C Film

[William Wiseman]

> I'm using it and like it. I develop in Rodinal, although I may try it 
> with
> another developer.  According to who you ask it's supposed to be either
> Forte or Bergger. It's supposed to have more silver than modern films 
> (hence
> the comparison with Super XX). I think when this came up, Richard took 
> issue
> with the statement, asking quite reasonably, how much silver does it 
> have?
> How much does modern film have? What does it mean more silver? Richard
> didn't answer the question and I don't think anyone else did :) I 
> don't know
> the answer, but the price is right and I like the results I'm getting.

I noticed that most of the comments mentioned using Rodinal as the 
developer. This would work for me also as it seems to be both cheap to 
use and easy to find. What dilution/time have you been using?  What EI?

JeffW.


>
>> OK, next question for the group. Has any here actually tried J&C Photo
>> Classic 200 film. I have an old Graphic 2.25 X 3.25 camera and I'm
>> adding the 4x5 and would like to find one film that is available in
>> sheets for both cameras. I plan to use just the one film for about a
>> year and get all of the bugs worked out of using the cameras, handling
>> and processing the film and printing with the larger sizes. And it
>> isn't too expensive so it helps my budget even if I shoot lots of 
>> film.
>> :-) I have found a couple of brief comments/reviews that refer to it 
>> as
>> being similar to Super XX, but since I never used that film I have
>> nothing to compare with.
>>
>> Any comments or information would be appreciated.