Lomography Earl Grey 100

Earl Grey 100 is Fomapan 100 Classic with a different label and a higher sticker price. Lomography buys finished film in bulk from Foma Bohemia, the same Czech factory that produces Fomapan, and repackages it under the Earl Grey name. The relationship is not particularly hidden; once you have shot both side by side the grain structure, tonal scale, and base color give it away. Earlier emulsions of Earl Grey were rumored to be Kodak T-Max 100 in some production runs, but the current product is Czech.

What you get is a classic cubic-grain ISO 100 stock that costs roughly twice what straight Fomapan 100 costs. If you only buy from boutique retailers and never compare prices, that may not matter. If you order film online and watch the per-roll cost, the math is hard to defend. The look itself is real: a longer, gentler tonal curve than HP5+ pulled to 100, with grain that reads as old-fashioned rather than clinical. For documentary or street work where you want the film to participate in the image rather than disappear behind it, the look earns its place.

Latitude is narrower than Ilford FP4+ or Kodak T-MAX 100. A stop of overexposure prints flat and grey; a stop under blocks shadows hard. Rate it at 80 in contrasty daylight for cleaner negatives, and use Rodinal at 1:100 with stand development if you want a compensating effect on a high-contrast scene.

Available in 35mm and 120, sold in three-roll packs through Lomography stores. If you can source Fomapan 100 Classic from a Czech or European seller, the same emulsion costs less; the Lomography branding is the markup.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.31, the standard cubic-grain silver-halide baseline that matches Fomapan 100 exactly. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second, so a 30-second meter reading climbs to roughly 90 seconds at the negative. Indoor available-light work crosses that threshold often.