Wicked Acros 100

During a chat with my old mentor Branko Lenart a month ago he suggested me trying the Fuji Neopan Acros 100 b/w-film, a “wicked film” in his terms. I nearly forgot about his words but remembered them two days ago when I was photographing in the canals of the Wienfluss in Vienna where I exposed my last Ilford Delta 100 rolls, my favorite film – yet.

But yesterday I managed to visit Foto Köberl in Graz and bought five rolls of the Acros along with an Ilfosol-S devloper. Bad choice because the only thing I found so far on the combination of Across and Ilfosol-S was in the archives of photo.net where Suzuki-san wrote on the day of my 22nd birthday the following:

Ryuji Suzuki , sep 06, 2005; 02:25 a.m.
I suggest Acros 100 at EI 32 for 7.0 min, and EI 80 for 8.5 min in Ilfosol-S 1+14 at 20C. I don’t recommend Acros 100 at EI 100. (To advanced darkroom workers: developer DS-2 and DS-12 work very similarly to Ilfosol-S in terms of development time. Use DS-2 or DS-12 at 2+1 strength for this film. That is, two parts developer plus one part water.)

Okay – so overexpose the film 1/3f-stop. But I didn’t know about this when I was strolling down Herrengasse to Foto Ehmann (link defunct) while taking pictures with the Acros. There I bought a Fuji Provia 400F, a positive color film that is said to be pushable up to 3600 ASA (!) with good results for 9.50 € – expensive! One roll of Acros 100 was with 4.00 € even cheaper than an Ilford Delta 100 which costs 4.40 € to 4.20 € (Foto Mayrhofer or Foto Kücher in Salzburg).

Anyhow I am eager to develop the 4 rolls of film I shot the past couple of days. Results will follow!

During a chat with my old mentor Branko Lenart a month ago he suggested me trying the Fuji Neopan Acros 100 b/w-film, a “wicked film” in his terms. I nearly...

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