FlicFilm Black and White 100

Flic Film is a small Alberta operation that has been re-spooling other manufacturers' emulsions since 2021, and the ISO 100 black-and-white slot in their lineup is filled by UltraPan 100, which is Fomapan 100 wound into Flic-branded cassettes. Some retailers list it generically as Flic Film B&W 100. Either way, what loads into the camera is the Czech panchromatic stock that has been coming out of the Foma plant in Hradec Kralove since the 1990s.

That origin shapes everything else. Grain is old-school cubic rather than tabular, which gives the film a mid-century European look closer to early Agfa stocks than to anything modern from Ilford or Kodak. At box speed in good light the negatives are clean and surprisingly sharp, with a tonal scale that compresses gracefully at the top end and blocks fast at the bottom. Rate it at 80 in contrasty sun to hold the shadows.

Compared with Ilford FP4+, you give up about a stop of usable latitude and gain a softer, less clinical signature. Compared with Fomapan 100 under its own name, the negatives are literally identical. The reason to buy the Flic version is that it ships from Canada with no border tax for North American customers, which on bulk-roll 100-foot cans is a real difference.

Developer choice matters. Rodinal at 1:50 for around eleven minutes gives the cleanest grain. Stand development in Rodinal 1:100 is a popular workaround for the narrow latitude; the compensating effect holds highlights that would otherwise blow. Flic's own Black, White and Green developer is built around vitamin C and phenidone and works fine.

Available in 35mm 36-exposure cassettes, 120, 100-foot bulk rolls, and a 620 respool for vintage box cameras. No sheet sizes under the Flic label.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.31. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second on the standard silver-grain curve. A 30-second metered reading becomes about 90 seconds at the negative. Foma's own table corrects harder than 1.31 past two minutes, so add a third of a stop on top for very long frames.