Leica has introduced the primary 35mm movie produced underneath its personal title, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white movie, and can price $10 per 36-exposure roll when it goes on sale on August twenty first.
Leica says that the brand new movie is produced in Germany, although wouldn’t title a producer when requested. The specs, proper down to each curve of the spectral sensitivity chart, are a precise match for Adox HR-50 — manufactured in Germany — so this may be nothing greater than a rebrand of these rolls. Adox HR-50 costs $7.49 for 36 exposures, so that you’ll must resolve in case you’re completely satisfied paying a pair bucks further for Leica’s stunning retro packaging.
Because the title suggests, Monopan 50 has an ISO score of fifty, a low sensitivity supposed for wide-aperture images, which the corporate says can be a nod to the low-sensitivity movie obtainable when the 35mm Leica I used to be launched in 1925.
With 280 line pairs per millimeter, this can be a high-resolution movie, whereas panchromatic sensitivity of as much as 780nm permits each a large tonal vary and the choice to make use of Monopan 50 for infrared images.