[LargeFormat] J & C Film

[Stuart Phillips]

I should have said that I'd like to try it in PMK pyro but haven't yet.
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From: "William Wiseman" <elox@hot.rr.com>
To: <largeformat@f32.net>
Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 11:15 PM
Subject: Re: [LargeFormat] J & C Film


> > 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.
> 
> 
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