You are In Leslieville Part 2 or This this Extreme Enough for You?

Ultrafine Extreme 400, the mystery film from Photo Warehouse in the US. The film is cheap as chips and over delivers. There's a large fan club/cult in the Negative Postives Film Photography Podcast group on Facebook and I can see why.

UE 400 is made for Photo Warehouse by Ilford Photo, some people swear it's Kentmere 400 re-badged, I don't think so. I'm going out on a limb and speculating it might be a previous generation of HP5. Film companies update their emulstions all the time for example Tri-X today isn't the same Tri-x from the 1990s. At this point, who cares, the film delivers.

I had to dig for development times for my favourite developer,  HC110 B and its buried deep on the Photo Warehouse site in a PDF. Like HP5 and even Rollei RPX 400, it's five minutes flat at 20c. I'm happy. You do have be careful as the film can scratch easily but a hardneing fixer can mitigate that. Scanning is easy peasy, the film dries flat.

The only real complaint if you can say isn't about the film but ordering from Photo Warehouse proper, their international shipping rates of $100 USD to start and we'll refund you when we find the real shipping rate doesn't inspire confidence. If the people behind Photo Warehouse are reading my blog, talk to your USPS rep and see if they can't cut you a better deal on international shipping rates, or talk to the FPP and see how they calculate shipping becasue I know a lot of Canadian analogue photographers will buy their film without blinking but the current policy is leaving a lot of money on the table.


Camera: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor lenses.
Film: Ultrafine Extreme 400, HC110 B for five minutes at 20c.

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