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Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 in 120 Medium Format Film is Available for Pre-Order

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07/31/2017
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Last Updated on 07/31/2017 by Chris Gampat

Bellamy Hunt told us that Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 120 would be coming soon, and today he’s announcing that it’s available for pre-order. The film, which is popular with the 35mm film photography world, has finally sold enough that Bellamy decided that it would make sense to have it in a larger film emulsion. Street Pan 400 is unlike many of the others out there with the exception of a few Ilford emulsions. Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400 is a near infrared film that needs a lot of light unlike Kodak Tri-X, Fujifilm Acros and a number of others. So if you’re using it then you’ll need to give it more light or expose it at box speed vs pushing it.

Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan 400’s stock was seemingly also drying up and it was tough to get your hands on it, so perhaps this is one of the reasons why. With the 120 format you can shoot it in 645, 6×6, 6×7 and 6×9 if you wish along with many other medium format options. As the name implies, Bellamy really targeted the film at street photographers. However, I genuinely think that the high contrast and grain can make for a great film for portraiture and landscapes. It will look almost like Kodak T-Max 400 but with nowhere near the level of sharpness that can be delivered.

Here are some quotes from our review:

“The film grain from Street Pan is very fine overall. It’s much finer than Tri-X and Delta 400. So if you’re a person that craves that super grainy look, then this may not be the 400 film for you. In fact, this is some of the finest grain that I’ve seen overall for a 400 speed black and white film…

Because it’s such a high contrast film, you’ll also need to find a way to meter very carefully to try to balance out the shadows and the highlights. When you properly expose it, you can get a whole load of detail from both the shadows and the highights overall. Typically, you don’t want to expose for the shadows or the highlights specifically–instead you just want a balance here or in certain situations even overexpose just a tad. The black here are very inky and deep, so the film will really reflect that.

This film is more contrasty than Tri-X overall though not as contrasty as Delta 400–so it’s an interesting in-between with the finest grain of all of the options.”

Check out all the details over at Japan Camera Hunter.

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Chris Gampat is the Editor in Chief, Founder, and Publisher of the Phoblographer. He provides oversight to all of the daily tasks, including editorial, administrative, and advertising work. Chris's editorial work includes not only editing and scheduling articles but also writing them himself. He's the author of various product guides, educational pieces, product reviews, and interviews with photographers. He's fascinated by how photographers create, considering the fact that he's legally blind./ HIGHLIGHTS: Chris used to work in Men's lifestyle and tech. He's a veteran technology writer, editor, and reviewer with more than 15 years experience. He's also a Photographer that has had his share of bylines and viral projects like "Secret Order of the Slice." PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. EXPERIENCE: Chris Gampat began working in tech and art journalism both in 2008. He started at PCMag, Magnum Photos, and Geek.com. He founded the Phoblographer in 2009 after working at places like PDN and Photography Bay. He left his day job as the Social Media Content Developer at B&H Photo in the early 2010s. Since then, he's evolved as a publisher using AI ethically, coming up with ethical ways to bring in affiliate income, and preaching the word of diversity in the photo industry. His background and work has spread to non-profits like American Photographic Arts where he's done work to get photographers various benefits. His skills are in SEO, app development, content planning, ethics management, photography, Wordpress, and other things. EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. FAVORITE SUBJECT TO PHOTOGRAPH: Chris enjoys creating conceptual work that makes people stare at his photos. But he doesn't get to do much of this because of the high demand of photography content. / BEST PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Don't do it in post-production when you can do it in-camera.