Last Thursday I had to visit Concord, California, for work. And, unsuprisingly, got no photos taken with my FTN and 43-86 combo that I'd taken. So that night I tested out a new film I got -- Ilford P4 400 ISO surveillance Film -- in my Pentax K2. I managed to pick up 450 feet of this film, on a lark, and to take a chance that it might be great. It is. This film has a greater tonal range than I had expect and many of the images are so silver that they look like digital monochrome conversions instead of standard monochrome film shots. Also, this film can apparently be shot at up to ISO 800 or 1,000 and push processed to deliver a low-grain, low-light film. I have three shots to share, two of which are of my dogs. Cope. You'll see more of this film next week as I'll use it exclusively.
Dogs make a great film test subject because if the film performs poorly, the fur will be a much or, at best, out of focus. This film performs superbly well with great detail and no white-space blowouts. Normally, Cheever's muzzle is a big white mash in photos, but in reality he still has some dark hair speckled throughout. This is the first film I've used that captures that without additional post processing.
I had read this film has a low glare propensity. This image would seem to confirm that. The sun is in the lower left and this lens (Pentax-A 28-80) has a tendency to glare.
One final shot, looking through a hollow football.
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