ORWO UN 54 Revisited

 Love shooting with ORWO's UN 54, still sitting on some bulk rolls in the freezer, that's why I like so much. I'm not going to comment on their current ownership and hold out hope that maybe Lomography will make them an offer they can't refuse some day. 

UN54 is a 100 ISO daylight balanced black and white motion picture stock that is leveraged as a still film. You can get in 100ft/30m bulk rolls, or spooled up 35mm cassettes from a variety of sources. Lomography sell this film under the Lomo Kino Potsdam name. Prior to the great pack and purge of 2023 in Oakville and the move of 2024 to the city, I used D76 or ID-11as the developer of choice. Problem, I don't have the room to store stock D75/ID-11 in my condo, so I had to find a liquid developer that can do the job well. In come's Ilford's Ilfotec DDX at a 1+4 dilution, DDX is their version of Kodak's Tmax developer. 

I used the developing time provided by Lomography for Potsdam and it worked perfectly. There's a lot of snap to these negatives, more than any thing it was the last roll I shot in my Beaches stay and I was out to experiment a bit. Now that I have a time to process UN54 I'm shooting a lot more it again. 


Camera: Nikon FM3A, Nikkor AIS lenses. 

Film: ORWO UN 54, Ilfotec DDX 1+4. 


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