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Film Photography Project’s Wolfman 100 Medium Format Black and White Film

Keith Dotson
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Shot with Fuji GW690II Rangefinder Camera

In this video I’ll show you the results from my first experience using Wolfman 100 ISO black and white from the Film Photography Project.

Follow along as I shoot with my Fuji GW690II camera to test a roll of Wolfman 100 film.

I’ll show the negatives, the lab scans, a digital print, and a darkroom print.

And to test the film, I used my Texas Leica — the FujiFilm GW690 II medium format camera in several locations:

Scenario 1: the ghost town at Union Level Virginia where I had terrible, harsh midday sun.

Scenario 2: a sunflower patch on a gray rainy morning

Scenario 3: Landscape photography of a tree in a park in my hometown in late afternoon summer light.


About Wolfman 100

Wolfman is a 100 iso panchromatic film manufactured on a triacetate base and the negatives are really curly. Film Photography Project says Wolfman 100 has medium to low grain and high resolving power.

Here’s a quick look at my lab scans. It’s always a happy feeling to see that you got all 8 frames!

Screen shot of the folder holding my film scans. With a 6 x 9 format camera, you get 8 frames per roll of medium format film, whereas with a 6 x 6 format camera like a Hasselblad you get 12 frames.
Wolfman is a 100 iso panchromatic film manufactured on a triacetate base and the negatives are really curly.
Wolfman is a 100 iso panchromatic film manufactured on a triacetate base and the negatives are really curly.

Now let’s look at the images.

Here is my favorite image from the rool, an abandoned store in Baskerville, Virginia. The Wolfman held the deep shadows well and looking deep into the enlarged scan I could see a lot of detail.
This image made in the Union Level ghost town in Virginia was shot in terrible, harsh midday light, yet the resulting image on Wolfman is not bad.
Unfortunately the final three frames of my roll suffered from a light leak. But even though this landscape shot was ruined, you can still see how the film handled the deep blue summer sky. Bright white clouds in the sky have almost vanished.
Unfortunately the final three frames of my roll suffered from a light leak. But even though this landscape shot was ruined, you can still see how the film handled the deep blue summer sky. Bright white clouds in the sky have almost vanished.


I didn’t do much post-processing work on these scans. As you can see, the film and the camera handled that really harsh light very nicely — at least I think so.

As you can see in the last image above, I had a light leak or something on the last few frames of the film. I was really careful loading and unloading the film so it had to be a light leak or something else happened. There are streaks across all three frames.

Ah — the curly goodness of real gelatin silver fiber-based prints. I’ll have to flatten them.
I made some contact prints from the negative, and it’s really beautiful to see such a big image coming straight from the negative. 

Matted contact print from aWolfman 100 black and white film, printed on Ilford Mat gelatin silver fiber-based film.
Matted contact print from Wolfman 100 black and white film, printed on Ilford Mat gelatin silver fiber-based film.

Well I hope this video is useful to anyone considering shooting with Film Photography Project’s Wolfman 100 film. I must say I really enjoyed it and I am happy with the results.

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