This Is How I Roll Film Noir 400 - 120 Medium Format Black & White Film

The fastest in the collection. Built for when the light doesn't cooperate. Now in medium format.

The Noir range covers four speeds. Noir 400 is the one you reach for when the other three would leave you underexposed, whatever format you're shooting.

This Is How I Roll Film Noir 400 120 Film is the fastest member of the Noir collection in medium format, rated at ISO 400 and sharing the same transparent polyester base, cinematic character, and hand-rolled approach as the rest of the range. Each roll is individually wrapped in foil before dispatch, an artisan detail that reflects the care This Is How I Roll Film puts into every stock they produce. Where the slower Noir films reward careful, deliberate shooting in good light, Noir 400 opens the collection up to indoor available light, overcast conditions, and any situation where speed matters across a medium format negative. In stock now and shipping fast from the UK. Standard black and white chemistry, 10 exposures, no DX code.

What Makes This Is How I Roll Film Noir 400 120 Film Habit-Forming

ISO 400 in Medium Format: The Noir Collection After Dark ISO 400 is where the Noir collection becomes genuinely versatile across all lighting conditions. It handles indoor available light, overcast skies, and fast-moving subjects that the slower films in the range can't keep pace with. In medium format that versatility is particularly welcome: the larger negative absorbs the faster speed gracefully, producing images with the tonal quality of medium format and the flexibility of ISO 400.

Hand-Rolled and Foil-Wrapped Every roll is hand-rolled and individually wrapped in foil before dispatch. In a market where most film arrives off an automated production line, that level of care is worth noting. Your medium format rolls are handled with the same consideration you bring to using them.

Sharpness and Grain Across a Larger Negative The combination of sharpness, controlled grain, and tonal quality that distinguishes Noir 400 in 35mm is amplified in medium format. The grain is distributed across a larger area, the detail resolves more fully, and the cinematic tonal character of the Noir collection benefits from having more negative to work with.

Transparent Polyester Base: Flat Negatives, Better Scans The transparent polyester base dries completely flat, making medium format negatives easy to load into scanning carriers and producing consistent results. A practical advantage for home developers, particularly with the larger medium format frame where flatness matters even more than in 35mm.

Light Piping: Load in Dim Light The thin polyester base makes Noir 400 susceptible to light piping. Load in dim or subdued light and store in the black canister pot. The backing paper on 120 film offers some protection, but care during loading remains important.

Standard Black and White Processing Compatible with standard black and white developers. Consult the 35mm developing times as a starting point and adjust for your equipment and preferences.

10 Exposures A standard 120 roll gives 10 exposures at 6x7, 12 at 6x6, or 16 at 6x4.5 depending on your camera. At ISO 400 in mixed light, those frames go quickly. Make them count.

Best For Noir 400 120 earns its place for street, documentary, portrait, and travel photography in mixed or difficult light. The polyester base makes it a strong choice for home developers who scan their own film, and the combination of ISO 400 versatility with medium format image quality makes it a capable and distinctive choice for photographers who want to push the Noir collection into conditions the slower films can't handle. Black and white development for 120 format is available here at Chemical Dependency Lab.

Perfect for: Street and documentary photographers shooting medium format, home developers who want flat-drying negatives in 120 format, photographers who want a capable ISO 400 black and white film with cinematic character, and anyone whose noir dependency in medium format doesn't clock off when the sun goes down.

Noir 400 takes the tonal quality and flat-drying polyester base of the Noir collection and adds the speed to use it in conditions the rest of the range can't handle. Hand-rolled, foil-wrapped, and ready for whatever the day throws at it. Same character, more format, more situations.