Heavy Arts

I picked up two rolls of this today to shoot in my Mamiya 6 (still getting the rangefinder calibrated), and they were both useless. I’ve heard some reasonable reviews in the past, and shot some Shanghai GP3 as well, so didn’t see any risk in it. The problem was that the film detached from the backing paper as it was being loaded, wandered off, and got stuck. Without the film stuck to the backing paper, well, all is lost. When I did find the adhesive tag that was meant to fix the film to the paper, it had no “sticky-ness” left to it at all. It happened with both rolls, which was disappointing.

I grabbed a roll of HP5+ on the way home.

I’d still be interested to shoot some in 35mm, but in 120 I wont risk it again. Just a warning to be wary, hopefully it was just a bad batch.