CineStill BwXX - 120
Experience stunning black and white photography with CineStill Film BwXX / 120. This high-quality film is designed for medium format cameras, allowing you to capture beautiful monochrome images with rich tones and fine grain. Manufactured by Cinestill, this film is perfect for photographers looking to create classic and timeless images. Whether you are shooting portraits, landscapes, or street photography, CineStill Film BwXX / 120 is the ideal choice for achieving professional-looking results. Elevate your photography with this versatile and reliable film that delivers exceptional quality with every shot.
Experience stunning black and white photography with CineStill Film BwXX / 120. This high-quality film is designed for medium format cameras, allowing you to capture beautiful monochrome images with rich tones and fine grain. Manufactured by Cinestill, this film is perfect for photographers looking to create classic and timeless images. Whether you are shooting portraits, landscapes, or street photography, CineStill Film BwXX / 120 is the ideal choice for achieving professional-looking results. Elevate your photography with this versatile and reliable film that delivers exceptional quality with every shot.
Experience stunning black and white photography with CineStill Film BwXX / 120. This high-quality film is designed for medium format cameras, allowing you to capture beautiful monochrome images with rich tones and fine grain. Manufactured by Cinestill, this film is perfect for photographers looking to create classic and timeless images. Whether you are shooting portraits, landscapes, or street photography, CineStill Film BwXX / 120 is the ideal choice for achieving professional-looking results. Elevate your photography with this versatile and reliable film that delivers exceptional quality with every shot.
Experience stunning black and white photography with CineStill Film BwXX / 120. This high-quality film is designed for medium format cameras, allowing you to capture beautiful monochrome images with rich tones and fine grain. Manufactured by Cinestill, this film is perfect for photographers looking to create classic and timeless images. Whether you are shooting portraits, landscapes, or street photography, CineStill Film BwXX / 120 is the ideal choice for achieving professional-looking results. Elevate your photography with this versatile and reliable film that delivers exceptional quality with every shot.
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Cinestill BwXX Double-X Black and White Film (120 Roll Film)
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Cinestill BWXX 120 Black and White Film
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Cinestill BwXX Double-X Black and White Film (120 Roll Film) | Panchromatic | ISO 250/200 | Fine Grain | Wide Exposure
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originally posted on analoguewonderland.co.uk
This film stock has huge range of tones, but seems to be a little extreme on how it behaves. This gives an amazing character to the images and for portraits it is amazing. Seems to handle skin tones very nicely, keeping them bright in the resulting image but with plenty of texture. Lots of good portrait examples in these reviews. Green seems to be very bright in the images - see my examples. The leaf shows bright with the dragonfly, but I dont remember the background being that dark in real life. Maybe not a good one for beginners, but certainly the film stock to learn once you are ready.
originally posted on analoguewonderland.co.uk
This is a very versatile film. In my experience it beautifully rich blacks and excellent shadow detail and the fact it’s incredibly forgiving means you can get more HP5 + like tones or you can settle for the creamy, rich tones it gives off naturally or push it and get a little bit more grain without underexposing and losing clarity.Great film stock but the only problem is the same as Kodak’s B&W films; they’re too expensive to justify buying over Ilford films.
originally posted on analoguewonderland.co.uk
I had shot this in 35mm a few years ago and didn't love nor hate it, and after Cinestill released it in 120, figured I'd give it another go. This film is very picky with light. You will get drastically different results in even the smallest light change in a scene. Every shot on my roll looked different. Some people may like that, but I prefer more consistency. It has latitude that is TOO good, making it a pain to get contrast out of some shots, and a pain to remove contrast in others. Best for what is was made for - cinema. Shot at 100, developed in HC-110 dilution B. Fine grain and dries pretty flat though which is nice, and when the light is perfect, the images can be lovely.
Cinestill BwXX Double-X Black and White Film (120 Roll Film)
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Cinestill BWXX 120 Black and White Film
Delivery between 8–19 June $35.04
CineStill BWXX 120
Delivery between 10–18 June $31.16
[Expired 03/2026] Cinestill BWxx Double-X 120 Black & White Negative Film
Delivery $12.43
CineStill BwXX Double-X 120 Film
Delivery between 5–15 June $9.70
This film stock has huge range of tones, but seems to be a little extreme on how it behaves. This gives an amazing character to the images and for portraits it is amazing. Seems to handle skin tones very nicely, keeping them bright in the resulting image but with plenty of texture. Lots of good portrait examples in these reviews. Green seems to be very bright in the images - see my examples. The leaf shows bright with the dragonfly, but I dont remember the background being that dark in real life. Maybe not a good one for beginners, but certainly the film stock to learn once you are ready.
This is a very versatile film. In my experience it beautifully rich blacks and excellent shadow detail and the fact it’s incredibly forgiving means you can get more HP5 + like tones or you can settle for the creamy, rich tones it gives off naturally or push it and get a little bit more grain without underexposing and losing clarity.Great film stock but the only problem is the same as Kodak’s B&W films; they’re too expensive to justify buying over Ilford films.
I had shot this in 35mm a few years ago and didn't love nor hate it, and after Cinestill released it in 120, figured I'd give it another go. This film is very picky with light. You will get drastically different results in even the smallest light change in a scene. Every shot on my roll looked different. Some people may like that, but I prefer more consistency. It has latitude that is TOO good, making it a pain to get contrast out of some shots, and a pain to remove contrast in others. Best for what is was made for - cinema. Shot at 100, developed in HC-110 dilution B. Fine grain and dries pretty flat though which is nice, and when the light is perfect, the images can be lovely.
This film yielded a rich range of tones with lovely grain. It is really quite beautiful.On drying, however, the negatives exhibited a signifcant curl, which made them quite challenging to work with. The degree of curl was worse than any other film I've used. I don't know if the 35mm would be any better.In my hybrid workflow, I develop the film and then scan the negatives to produce finished images. I had to scan each frame of the cinestill film individually, employing a variety of devices to hold the film flat in the negative holder, all the while trying not to damage the negatives. I've shot multiple rolls of this film, each resulting in the same curl.The attached image shows the profile view of the cinestill negatives in a negative sleeve, resting on my ... MoreThis film yielded a rich range of tones with lovely grain. It is really quite beautiful.On drying, however, the negatives exhibited a signifcant curl, which made them quite challenging to work with. The degree of curl was worse than any other film I've used. I don't know if the 35mm would be any better.In my hybrid workflow, I develop the film and then scan the negatives to produce finished images. I had to scan each frame of the cinestill film individually, employing a variety of devices to hold the film flat in the negative holder, all the while trying not to damage the negatives. I've shot multiple rolls of this film, each resulting in the same curl.The attached image shows the profile view of the cinestill negatives in a negative sleeve, resting on my light table. For comparison, the cinestill negatives are laying on top of a sleeve holding a roll of Ilford Delta 100 negatives, which lies perfectly flat against the table. These two rolls were developed and dried at the same time in exactly the same conditions. The difference is quite dramatic.The cinestill film is lovely, and I'll use it again. It's (just barely) worth the extra trouble.
This film is simply class. It has so many qualities. It’s sharp, it holds highlights well, shadows are deep with inky blacks but always with plenty of tonal detail. There are plenty of films which offer rich contrast but not so many that don’t sacrifice shadow detail. I’ll be honest, I’ve only shot one roll so far, and the negative looks a bit thin, so either I underexposed or underdeveloped. Despite all this, most of the (DSLR) scans look beautiful. The only downsides are; the film is not the flattest, and it’s not that cheap. I can get fairly similar results from FP4 for nearly half the price. As with all the Cinestill films, I’d happily use them all the time but I can only afford it as an occasional treat.
I expected extra contrast, which the film has. It also has a pleasant grain, visible for an analogue look, but not excessive. The pictures are also sharp. My scans look far better than my dark room printing attempts. Hence my experience that the film is trickier to get pleasing results, than I expected. The scans were easily adjusted in post. By contrast, the dark room printed shots tended to need a long exposure, emphasised contrast and both the blacks and whites quickly lost detail. The issues were most likely down to my skillset. However, I'm left with an opinion that the film is a little more demanding than others. But do have a go with it.
I used most of this roll for long exposure shots at the beach through a huge stack of ND filters, hence the vignetting in the boat image. The exposure time there was around a minute off a tripod. The images look nice enough, but I'm not convinced they're better than what you would have got with a much cheaper film and there is quite a lot of grain. Long exposure perhaps isn't this film's strong suit. For comparison, the sea wall was shot at normal exposure durations freehand, and yet there is still a really surprising amount of grain for a fairly low ISO film.
I shot the film on a Pentax ME and Pentax SMC 50mm f1.7 lens, a charity shop find. The equipment was the best part of 50 years old. I shot street portraits, family portraits and street photography. Many of the portraits were shot wide open.I was really pleased with the results. AW developed and scanned the images. The images you see here have been edited in GIMP, nothing fancy, a bit of cropping and minor adjustments to levels.The grain on the images is rather pleasing giving the images a very retro monochrome look and feel. I shot the images at the ISO indicated on the filmSee what you think of the 5 images uploaded
Kodak Double-X 5222 has an incredibly beautiful, film noir tonality with a really gorgeous, gritty grain structure, and dramatic halation. One of the CineStill stocks that's worth the price in my personal opinion.It's high contrast, and less flexible if your metering is less than intentional. Unlike most negative films, you need somewhat precise exposure. It doesn't respond as forgivingly to extreme overexposure, and in such a situation seems to almost blow highlights vaguely like a slide.Beautiful rendition in daytime. At night outside, it's similarly gorgeous, but it can occasionally end up too contrasty for many a high-contrast night scene, especially if you don't meter correctly for your subject, or manage your lighting situation (whether it's practical ... MoreKodak Double-X 5222 has an incredibly beautiful, film noir tonality with a really gorgeous, gritty grain structure, and dramatic halation. One of the CineStill stocks that's worth the price in my personal opinion.It's high contrast, and less flexible if your metering is less than intentional. Unlike most negative films, you need somewhat precise exposure. It doesn't respond as forgivingly to extreme overexposure, and in such a situation seems to almost blow highlights vaguely like a slide.Beautiful rendition in daytime. At night outside, it's similarly gorgeous, but it can occasionally end up too contrasty for many a high-contrast night scene, especially if you don't meter correctly for your subject, or manage your lighting situation (whether it's practical lighting or otherwise). Get it right, though, and you'll be so thrilled.I've shot it many times, and haven't run into the QA issues I occasionally have experienced with earlier batches of 800T.
I bought a few rolls if Cinestill 35mm and 120 with a conscious hope of finding an expression of nostalgia , for the London photowalk. I live in London , but avoid going 'into town' as it has become an uglier, dirtier beast than it was in my 20's (oldies all say that, because it's true), but didn't make the photowalk thanks to SW trains cancelling mine as I stood on the platform. I had hoped to find and replicate little cinematic corners of history for myself .Never mind. I had a stock of Cinestill.Sometimes the most amazing results come from using a film out of, what you originally thought was, it's context.I had the film so I took it on my hols to France.That is another story.This week I got round to developing and printing some of the shots.I had some ... MoreI bought a few rolls if Cinestill 35mm and 120 with a conscious hope of finding an expression of nostalgia , for the London photowalk. I live in London , but avoid going 'into town' as it has become an uglier, dirtier beast than it was in my 20's (oldies all say that, because it's true), but didn't make the photowalk thanks to SW trains cancelling mine as I stood on the platform. I had hoped to find and replicate little cinematic corners of history for myself .Never mind. I had a stock of Cinestill.Sometimes the most amazing results come from using a film out of, what you originally thought was, it's context.I had the film so I took it on my hols to France.That is another story.This week I got round to developing and printing some of the shots.I had some Rodinal , so that's what I used , timing appropriate to shooting the film at 200. The camera was a Nikon FE , 28mm lens, with or without red filter.It was pissing down with rain today so I had a go at printing.I have to say ,I have a new favourite film!It is a really moody one.Luscious blacks, gorgeous contrast ( Gd 3 filter too contrasty, gd 2 a bit muddy, settled on 2.5)Grain like golf balls.Not to everyone's taste, but it is SO mine.Lends itself well to storytelling , creative work and feeding the imagination. Extraordinarily good for textures and foliage.I have no scanner , the only digital input to these images is the android phone i used to snap the prints for sharing here . They were a pleasure to print.Try this at least once , especially if you print your own!
