Analog Therapy/Film Test: FPP B&W MUMMY 400
Stopped by my local camera shop earlier this week. Took some photos with a fun setup. Decided to pick up some more Rollei Infrared 400 and Chris…
…recommended I give some FPP film that had just come in a try. He had B&W ISO 400, 200, and 100 in stock and I picked up one of each. This post is about the ISO 400 variant.
Not my first FPP film. I had tried their low ISO color film before (Exhibit A, B, and C.) but it is my first try with their B&W film. In my experience with B&W ISO 400 film a camera with solid exposure is needed. So I chose a favorite little camera. My second favorite rangefinder, the Konica C35 Automatic I recently wrote about.
At the end of my workday, I struck out looking for a destination and ended up in a local town. I decided not to be precious about it and snapped away knowing there would be some lost frames. Chris did warn me that this was a 24 exposure roll and I promptly forgot. So I finished the roll sooner than I expected, but still managed to get some pics that I like. Here are the pics with my thoughts on the film afterward.
And here, when the winder stopped winding is when I remembered that this was a 24 exposure roll of film. No big. Was just capturing what I saw at this point. So I rewound the film and headed home to develop the film. Cinestill df96 as usual.
Thoughts.
Full disclosure. For a few pics the dark areas had… splotches? So I cleaned them up in Lightroom. I cannot tell if it was a film or developer thing so I will not ding the film. I have occasionally seen this with other faster speed B&W films before also. Anyhoo.
The film itself.
I like it. A lot. I like the tones and I find the grain that is there pleasing. Will I buy more? Not sure. Rollei RPX is my favorite 400 speed B&W film and at current prices RPX seems the better deal with its 36 exposures. But I would not count it out. I welcome any new film that comes along and I had fun giving it a spin. I wish FPP much success.
Happy capturing.
-ELW
Eric L. Woods 