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I have just found a nice foil wrapped roll of truprint film - do I shoot it and admire the wackiness of 10 year old Ferrania FG200 or do I make my fortune with it on ebay? :shrug:
 
Shoot it, you know you want to;)
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I wouldn't shoot it even if it was fresh. Stick it on the bay, don't forget to mention "lomo" in your title and description and buy yourself some decent film with the cash. That's what I'd do anyway.
 
mustanir said:
I wouldn't shoot it even if it was fresh. Stick it on the bay, don't forget to mention "lomo" in your title and description and buy yourself some decent film with the cash. That's what I'd do anyway.
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This - sell it and spend the money on something decent like fresh Portra!
 
11 rolls of OOD Jessops Diamond Everyday 200 = £25.00 on ebay.

Thats seriously how much someone paid for the above that I sold about 7 months ago. Got it all with a camera that I brought and I'm not particularly interested in Lomo so I listed it on ebay. I only expected to get perhaps £10 for it...

Just stick it on ebay not failing to mention Lomo at least 3 times.
 
5 ebays, 1 shoot it and 1 save the world from the torment, great responses so far!

I'm really tempted to stick it in the LX and leave it in the sun between frames! £200 Holga anyone? :lol:

I have a colleague who claims to have loads of thsi stuff, I told her to ebay it but she said sh might just bin it! Gonna see if I can wrangle it my way (then ebay it :naughty:)
 
5 ebays, 1 shoot it and 1 save the world from the evil, great responses so far!

I'm really tempted to stick it in the LX and leave it in the sun between frames! £200 Holga anyone? :lol:

I have a colleague who claims to have loads of thsi stuff, I told her to ebay it but she said she might just bin it! Gonna see if I can wrangle it my way (then ebay it :naughty:)
 
Well I've decided, and curiosity has got the better of me, I'm going to load it and take it to Dinorwig and see what we get!
 
If film is really fetching that much on fleabay then I might sell my rolls of out of date film :D
 
If you have any kodak HIE lying around, you could be sitting on a goldmine, there was a roll of 35mm on ebay yesterday that was at £31 for a roll and still going... Nearly £1 a shot, wouldnt leave that camera on continuous burst...
 
Or Kodak Technical Pan - Fantastic film, ISO 25 and resolves 400 lp/mm so pretty much out resolves any lens around. Makes grainless 20" x 16" prints and even bigger if drum scanned. (They made it up to 11"x14" sheet size and I shudder to think how much detail you could get out of that)

Downside is that its been discontinued for about 8 years and requires a special developer called Technidol which is also discontinued if you want tones other than black and white (originally it was designed for high contrast scientific and technical purposes, when deved in d-19 you get a 2.8:1 contrast ratio which is literally just black and white). It is possible to dev it in ultra dilute rodinal or Xtol though.

Upshot is that it sells for a fortune on ebay like HIE and EIR do. I was very lucky and able to get 3 freezer stored 35mm rolls for just £13 about 8 months ago. I'm working my way through the first one now and have been since October. Usually it sells for about £30 a roll plus. Don't even think about 120 or sheet, when that appears it goes for £100 plus as its quite rare.
 
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Alan Clogwyn said:
Well I've decided, and curiosity has got the better of me, I'm going to load it and take it to Dinorwig and see what we get!
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If you like it you can have all mine, I have loads of that Trueprint stuff lying about, its in a green wrapper isn't it.
Peeps buy/find/steal it for me, I know this sounds unkind or ungrateful but there will never be a time in my life when I literally have nothing else to shoot, cos that's what its gonna take..:lol:
 
Lol after reading this ive dug deep in the random box in the fridge and come across three rolls of this and some konica film. super lomo!
 
walsh said:
Lol after reading this ive dug deep in the random box in the fridge and come across three rolls of this and some konica film. super lomo!
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I used to like Konica film. I'm sure I've read somewhere recently that it's still being made in China (but not by Konica) and is what goes into some US supermarket brands... Or maybe I dreamt it.
 
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Or Kodak Technical Pan - Fantastic film, ISO 25 and resolves 400 lp/mm so pretty much out resolves any lens around. Makes grainless 20" x 16" prints and even bigger if drum scanned. (They made it up to 11"x14" sheet size and I shudder to think how much detail you could get out of that)
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Probably not as much as you'd think. At those kind of sheet sizes the lenses are probably only resolving 140 lp/mm if you're lucky. Don't get me wrong, it's still going to be grainless, and the detail will be impressive but the lenses for ULF were never outstandingly high resolution purely because they never had to be. There probably are people out there with super exotic lenses which can resolve the really fine detail to make shelling out for Tech Pan sheets worthwhile, but most users wouldn't really see the difference (especially as they will likely just be contact printing at ULF anyway)

Some 35mm paired with a 50 Summicron though, now that would be very nice :D
 
I've been shooting it through my Spotmatic F with a 55mm SMC Takumar and a 28mm SMC Takumar, mostly at f5.6 - f11 (gives 1 sec exposures though with an orange filter!). Those are probably the best lenses that I own and their both in great condition - I've not been able to find any actual lp/mm test data for either of them but as their primes I imagine that at f8 they will resolve quite a bit of detail. I know that the filter will degrade the quality very slightly as well though.

I've also taken a couple of portraits with flash as well (ISO 25 makes window light difficult!) and will see how they come out. I'm sending it to Palm Labs as they do a special service with ultra dilute (about 1:400) rodinal for it so that you can get a normal contrast range now that Technidol is so difficult to get. I could possibly develop it myself but the only other common developer that gives normal contrast is 1:5 Xtol and it only comes in 5 litres and I would never use all that!

Ironically when Tech Pan was originally released apparently Leica admitted that even its lenses were outresolved by the film!
 
s162216 said:
I could possibly develop it myself but the only other common developer that gives normal contrast is 1:5 Xtol and it only comes in 5 litres and I would never use all that!
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It might be a bit counter-intuitive and a bit of a waste, but 5 litres of XTOL costs about the same as getting one roll of film developed in a lab. As long as you develop a few rolls in it, you're quids in even if you don't get through it all!
 
Unfortunately I have already got all my chemicals for processing B&W and will be doing it shortly (I opted for Aculux 3 as it had good reviews about being a good, easy liquid developer to start with and 1L was cheaper than 500ml of Ilfosol 3 was).

I'm going to send this one to Palm Labs to do the developing as I don't particularly want to screw it up, this being a rare film now and I have not even developed one roll of B&W before yet!. Still there are the other 2 rolls of Tech Pan that I have in my freezer....
 
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