I am still not sure if the classic pan from that J&C is indeed the Forte. But I have compared both Fortepan 200 and Kodak's Double X (XX). Sadly, they are different. The Fortepan was an interesting film well worth the look into, but the XX was simply better. But it's hard to buy.
One thing that people sometimes forget is that the paper plays about the same role in the final image as the film and the developer. So if you are looking for old fashioned look, you also have to look for an old fashioned paper... Only by matching all the ingredients of FDP - film developer paper correctly one gets best results, instead of fighting against each ingredient inherent characteristics by adjusting development, esoteric techniques et cetera... I would scan the XX vs FP200 samples I got, but I don't think it would be much meaningful comparison, of a scanned print viewed on monitor... :( Frantisek
