I've had some rolls of Ilford Ortho Plus 80 in the fridge for the last couple of months. On the mission for the old box camera on January 2nd I finally loaded a roll of 120 into and old Fuji medium format camera in the event the weather turned nice.

Ilford advertises the Ortho Plus as a fine grain, sharp orthochromatic black & white film that can be processed / handled in deep red safelight. They go on to say that the film's lack of red sensitivity also means that reds and oranges in your frame are rendered darker with stronger contrast than standard panchromatic films. You've read this a million other places so I won't go on with what the film is supposed to do.

I would prefer to simply share my initial experience and a few photographs from my first roll of Ortho Plus 80.

The weather was beautiful by the time we reached Ft McLeod. ISO 80 is a little lower than I'm used to. I've got a 43mm equivalent lens on the Fuji so I was pretty comfortable going with a slower shutter speed, 80th of a second and used Sunny 16 for aperture.

I really like the fine grain and tonal ranges this film produces, the sample is a little small, just 15 photographs on the roll, I'll be shooting more of this film to be sure. I haven't had a chance to run the negatives through the darkroom just yet, but I did scan the negatives, I haven't done anything to the scans except some minor dust removal.

Enjoy these!
Dean.