Kodak manual Applications, Sizes Available, June 2003 P-255, Kodak Professional Technical Pan

TECHNICAL DATA / BLACK-AND-WHITE FILM

June 2003 • P-255

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film

—NOTICE—

Discontinuance of

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film is being discontinued due to steadily declining demand over the recent years. Changes in product components and our manufacturing processes make it impractical to continue to support this product at its current low levels.

The last Tech Pan coating was several years ago. Since that time, the old coating room has been shut down, the gels used in the product formulation have become obsolete, and we no longer manufacture the ESTAR support on which the 35 mm product was coated. There would be considerable cost to recreate the product, with no guarantee that it would look and act the same as the Tech Pan Film of old.

Technical Pan Film will continue to be available until the existing inventory has been depleted.

While there is no direct replacement for Tech Pan Film, you may find KODAK PROFESSIONAL T-MAX 100 Film in combination with specific B&W Developers to be a viable alternative for some applications.

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film is Kodak’s slowest and finest-grained black-and-white film for pictorial photography (when developed in KODAK TECHNIDOL Liquid Developer). It is a variable-contrast panchromatic film with extended red sensitivity; because of its extended red sensitivity, it yields prints with a gray-tone rendering slightly different from that produced by other panchromatic films. (This is most noticeable in portraits, in which it suppresses blemishes.)

Use this film for pictorial, scientific, technical, and reversal-processing applications. It is an excellent choice for making big enlargements or murals.

APPLICATIONS

You can vary the contrast of KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film by modifying development. The wide range of contrast levels, along with the spectral sensitization and combination of speed and image-structure properties, makes this film unusually versatile and suitable for many applications:

•Pictorial photography

•Photomicrography

•Microphotography (Microfilming)

•Solar photography

•Photographing electrophoretic gels

•Laser recording

•Other applications such as slide making, copying, and microfilming that require high or moderately high contrast combined with fine grain and high resolving power

SIZES AVAILABLE

Sizes and CAT numbers may differ from country to country. See your dealer who supplies KODAK PROFESSIONAL Products.

KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film 2415

Size	Film	Base	Sp No.	Letter	CAT No.
mm x ft	Code			Code
		4-mil
35 x 150	2415	(0.10 mm)	442	TP	129 9916
		ESTAR-AH

Size		Film		Base		Letter	CAT No.
		Code				Code
				4-mil
135-36		2415		(0.10 mm)		TP	129 7563
				ESTAR-AH
KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan 4415
Sheets		Sizes		Film
Per						Base	CAT No.
	(inches)		Code/Notch
Package
50		4 x 5				7-mil	882 6596
					(0.18 mm)
50		8 x 10			ESTAR		852 1817
						Thick
KODAK PROFESSIONAL Technical Pan Film 6415
Size		Film		Base		Letter	CAT No.
		Code				Code
				3.6-mil
120		6415		(0.091 mm)		TP	151 1054
				acetate

Because 2415 Film has a thinner base than conventional

35 mm picture-taking films, 150-foot rolls finished to Sp 442 will fit in bulk-film loaders designed to accept 100-foot rolls.

Other sizes are available on a special-order basis, subject to manufacturing limitations and current minimum-order requirements. Minimum-order quantities for special-order sizes are generally 750 square feet (70 square metres) of film.

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