Anyone use Arista 400 (non-Premium)?

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

This is my first go with Kodak HC-110 developer and last night I dev'd a
35mm roll, forgot the prewash and the negs' borders were a light gray:

Konica T4/UC Hexanon zoom:

First shot is through a window and I cropped some blank wall on the right,
shot at f8, and sax shot was wide open at f4.

and tonight this is a 120 roll of Arista 400. Did a 5 minute prewash and there was all KINDS of blue dye coming out and the negs are still bluish after drying.

floating dreams:

I'm fighting some flare (overcast day and didn't think I needed to use a
hood, wrong.) The last shot was the best as far as exposure/tones.

Won't be buying this film anymore, at least in the 120 size.
Wish Arista made the Premium in 120.

Orio · Expire: 2012-12-04

I personally see nothing wrong with the film, Bill. It has a good range of grays and I believe these negatives will be very flexible when printing.
Grain seems also acceptable IMO.

marty · Joined: 09 Apr 2009 Posts: 767 Location: Italy

Hi, Bill. I agree with Orio. I like very much the sax shot, superb tonality. I like the boats too, decay and neglected places/objects offer IMO good subjects. For what is concerning the color you see on the negative it's not necessarily a fault or a problem. Often it's just the color of the film base. Unless it's opaque should be ok. Fomapan 120 base, for example, it's blue too and it prints just fine. The blue or purple color in the prewash is the anti halo coating and has usually nothing to do with color of the film base. Most people never do prewash on 135 and they report no problem, I always do it but on the same brand/type of film the color only shows up on 120 so far.

Cheers, Marty.

Nesster · Expire: 2014-02-20

Bill I agree with both the above. Isn't Arista 400 = Foma 400? It is an old fashioned film -in both the good and bad senses- more like vintage HP5 maybe than modern HP5 or T grain film.

Sometimes I get the pale borders on negatives too... I think it is a combination of the plastic reel + thin negative + scanner compensation.

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19

Orio, Marty, and Jussi, thanks for your comments. I forgot that the Arista
was made by Fomapan. The sax shot is my best effort and is what I was
hoping for with the HC-110 developer. Will be experimenting with pushing
and pulling film with it, and the one-shot method is very easy to do. The
recipe Seele posted is also on my list for experimenting.

I was driving back to Huntsville from Guntersville when I espied these
forlorn boats by the highway. All I had was the Yashica-A and one of my
Ricoh FF-90's. This is a shot with the Ricoh using Fuji X-tra 400, converted
in BW using the Andy plugin in Bibble:

I wish I had a Koni Omega with Hex wide lens that day. Anyhoo, it was
partly overcast day with pissing gray light. I was hoping for the sun to
completely pop out of the clouds, but it never did.

martinsmith99 · Expire: 2013-11-18

Great sharpness in the sax shot!

Katastrofo · Expire: 2013-11-19