Friday Afternoon with Ferrania P30

 

P30 is an 80 ISO black and white motion picture stock made famous by the Italian filmmaker Fredirico Fellini and was revived by Film Ferrania a few years ago. Joining Eastman XX and ORWO UN 54 and N74 on the market P30 was marketed towards savvy film photographers looking for a black and white stock to shoot with. 

Unlike the American and German options, P30 can be a tricky film to shoot with its narrower latitude, while I love the results, it's not my favourite medium speed film to shoot with. It took me a while to dial things in with the regular production P30, you want to use D96 ideally for processing, failing that,  D76/ID-11 does the trick as well. I found HC110 B was great for the Alpha rolls of P30 but not regular production, things got way too contrasty. The other thing you have to be mindful of is the agitation, as in be gentle, I went with three gentle inversions per minute with D76 1+1. 

The other thing, use a camera with an accurate meter and shutter, P30 isn't one of those films you can fudge the exposure and say, "Yeah, close enough." The Olympus OM-2n, is a good camera for this film with its off the film plane metering system. I have another roll of P30 in my Nikon F100 which I have that set to Matrix metering. Stay tuned for that. 

I wouldn't recommend this film to beginners, roll with Ilford FP4 125, Kentmere 100 or Fomapan 100 instead. You more room to recover from your mistakes, or at least salvage your mistakes from shooting or processing. That all said, the results when you nail everything right..... 


Camera: Olympus OM-2n, MC Zuiko lenses. 

Film: Ferrania P30, D76 1+1. 



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