Ilford Pan F Review - “Fine Grain Specialist“

Our Ilford Pan F review compiles the comments, recommendations and feedback from the community - with technical details from Ilford - to give you an excellent overview of Pan F 35mm film’s strengths and weaknesses! Ilford Pan F 50 is a wonderful low-speed fine-grain black and white film, and is consistently rated 4 and 5* in our store (35mm film). Perfect for studio work, but also great for landscapes and street photography thanks to the fantastic amount of detail that can be obtained from the negatives. Photographers have also found that it captures portraits with a surprising softness - there’s enough contrast to be interesting but not so much it overwhelms or distorts! A couple of watch-outs when shooting Ilford Pan F film - it is recommended that you process the film promptly after exposing. This is due to the nature of the emulsion being slightly less stable than typical black and white films (in order to achieve the incredible results!) Don’t panic about it :-) but
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