Ilford FP4 Plus Camera Film

Ilford FP4+ is a very high-quality product usable for many uses in black and white photography. It's normal rated speed is 125 ASA, but this film tolerates push and pull to 50 ASA and 200 ASA. FP4 was my first introduction to black and white, and to date, a large quantity of my best pictures were taken on FP4 film, either at it's standard 125 rating, or downrated to 50. The film is a nice flexible film, that tolerates a lot of different exposure ...
...chemistry. I've developed it in Agfa's classic Rodinal chemistry to good results, Kodak's very handy T-Max 1+4 chemistry, of which this film produces excellent results. The detail in this film provides an exciting look to your pictures - unlike a number of Ilfords other films (HP5, cough, cough...), and in many peoples comparisons, outperforms Kodak's Plus-X film, which is exposed at the same rate (125 ASA). It is worth biasing your exposure slightly ...

bigbtommy 09.03.2003 · Read full review
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...a hobby in photography, and Ilford were very much the brand leader in my neck of the woods. Nowadays, when ‘analogue’ photography has well and truly been eclipsed by ‘digital’ it takes a very strong product to maintain a foothold in this highly competitive market driven commodity. FP4 simply ‘ticks all the boxes’. At 125ASA, it was originally considered a ‘medium speed’ general purpose stock, nowadays that tends to be a bit on the slow side, but ...
...as Olympus OM series, the sensitivity is well matched to the camera’s characteristics. Processing is pretty ‘bog standard’ – if you have deep pockets, you can still take your film to most halfway decent processors and get your film developed, on the other hand, DIY isn’t especially difficult as long as you have the kit. If you choose the home-developing route, you are presented with the option of doing all sorts of clever stuff with your film. ...

dobieg 29.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Ilford FP4 Plus Camera Film

Ilford FP4 Plus is the current version of a film that has been on the market since around 1970. It’s evolved, and it remains the standard by which all other medium-speed black-and-white emulsions are judged. There are now films that are sharper, or have less grain, or better tonality. What none of them do is combine excellence in all areas in the way FP4 does. FP4 is tolerant of most standard developers, and makes the most of its sharpness ...
...that FP4 looks sharper than new-technology films that actually show more detail – and photography is very much about the look of things. Don’t think that the film isn’t actually sharp, though – it is simply slightly less capable of showing really fine detail than newer emulsions. I’ve had good results from FP4 in Ilford’s own ID-11 and Ilfotec HC, as well as Paterson Aculux and Agfa Rodinal. As with almost all ...

Dudler 16.01.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Ilford FP4 Plus Camera Film