{"id":35926,"date":"2025-07-31T14:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35926\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:10:08","slug":"london-film-lab-launches-euston-400-a-new-black-and-white-slide-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/35926\/","title":{"rendered":"London Film Lab Launches Euston 400, a New Black-and-White Slide Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A film lab in London has announced a limited edition black-and-white reversal film named Euston 400. It is Aperture Printing<\/a>\u2018s first branded film.<\/p>\n

Kosmo Foto reports<\/a> that the film is a modified version of Rollei\u2019s black-and-white negative stock, repurposed into a slide film using a new development process developed by one of the lab\u2019s team members.<\/p>\n

Aperture Printing<\/a> is located in central London, not far from Euston Road, and analog photographers wanting to purchase the film will need to visit the physical shop on Rathbone Place.<\/p>\n

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The film is based on Rollei 400 and was developed by Alex Cole, a lab technician who joined Aperture Printing earlier this year. Euston 400 is expected to be the first in a series of black-and-white films designed to be shot as slides and processed using the lab\u2019s proprietary chemistry.<\/p>\n

Kosmo Foto notes that black-and-white slide film is not a new concept. Agfa previously released Dia, a 12-ISO slide film, which was eventually replaced by Scala 200X, a more widely adopted film that was discontinued in 2005. More recently, German manufacturer Adox introduced Scala 50, a slide-compatible version of its HR-50 film, in 2019.<\/p>\n

Cole says that \u201cthis project has been in mind for a long time,\u201d but developing a reliable and scalable process takes time. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a lot of online resources and enthusiasts that have been incredibly useful for learning the chemistry and basic process,\u201d he tells Kosmo Foto<\/a>. \u201cThe difficulty came from translating the process into one that is sustainable in a commercial setting without the knowledge or machinery used when black-and-white reversal was last publicly available.\u201d<\/p>\n

Euston 400 Example Shots <\/p>\n

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\u201cUnderstanding the chemistry and mechanisms of black-and-white reversal has been a personal research project since 2023,\u201d Cole tells Kosmo Foto. \u201cTesting of the process didn\u2019t start until March 2025. Each chemical stage was tested individually to give a whole understanding of the process. Our reversal recipe has successfully developed 50+ black-and-white slide films.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lab plans to release two more slide films, also based on Rollei black-and-white emulsions. \u201cThe high silver content and clear bases produce bright slides with incredible tonal range. Each film has different characteristics as a slide film. The variety of ISO speeds allows the films to be shot in a range of environments.\u201d<\/p>\n

The lab has produced 60 rolls of Euston 400 for this release. The film is priced at $10 (\u00a38 per roll). Development services cost $26 (\u00a320), or $34 (\u00a326) including scanning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A film lab in London has announced a limited edition black-and-white reversal film named Euston 400. It is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[21301,6225,6485,6486,21302,1120,96,21303,388,21304,21305,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-35926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-apertureprinting","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-blackandwhitefilm","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-filmphotography","tag-london","tag-reversalfilm","tag-slidefilm","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}