Leica has introduced the primary 35mm movie produced beneath its personal identify, Monopan 50. It’s an ultra-fine grain black-and-white movie, and can value $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 identify 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 is perhaps nothing greater than a rebrand of these rolls. Adox HR-50 costs $7.49 for 36 exposures, so that you’ll should resolve if you happen to’re pleased paying a pair bucks additional for Leica’s lovely retro packaging.
Because the identify suggests, Monopan 50 has an ISO ranking of fifty, a low sensitivity supposed for wide-aperture pictures, which the corporate says can also be a nod to the low-sensitivity movie accessible when the 35mm Leica I used to be launched in 1925.
With 280 line pairs per millimeter, it is a high-resolution movie, whereas panchromatic sensitivity of as much as 780nm allows each a large tonal vary and the choice to make use of Monopan 50 for infrared pictures.