Ilford Ortho Plus 80 - 120 Film

Orthofine

I hadn't used any Ilford Ortho 80 for a good while. This time around, a roll went in the Mamiya C220 for a classic bike and car event. The warm conditions saw plenty of folk in shorts and tee shirts. I wanted to see how skin tones would be rendered. The film can work rather well for this and I went out of my way to look for cars and bikes with red or orange colour schemes. Apart from being able to make these colours appear much darker and you'll get very fine grain shooting at box speed. Ortho seems to get on with 510 Pyro and that's a combination I'll be using again. Included images: A classic van with red front wings, that have rendered as black and some skin tones that look darker than they appeared on the day.

Exellent

Ive been shooting this on 120 since it came out and its a great film. Slightly more contrasty then others but fantastic results and very easy to use. Mainly developed with HC110, a great pairing, in my oppinion.

Slightly Disappointed

Having tried some Rollei Ortho 25 (35mm) with fun results, I was expecting similar from this, but overall for me it didn't seem to darken the reds as much, and in general just had a bit more contrast that a roll of Kentmere 100 I had in another camera at the same time. Ran this through a Yashica 635, and developed at home for 10.5 minutes in Ilford Ilfotec DD-X (1+4 single shot). Don't get me wrong, I like the results, but it didn't scream 'ortho' at me...