I shot a roll of the expired Gekko film in my Kodak Signet 35 and developed in HC110b for five minutes as indicated by the chart on the inside of the box. The grain seemed pretty pronounced for 100-speed film, and it took some heavy adjustments in Photoshop to approach the correct tonal balance.
The box says "Made in Europe". I found some claims that the Gekko is repackaged EFKE, but no evidence to support that assertion. I thought perhaps I might use the suggested development times for dozen films listed inside the box to help identify the film. However, nothing in the Massive Dev Chart fits that profile.
I think I'll next try using Rodinal, maybe with a bit more development time to compensate for age. Stand development might help to smooth the grain a bit.
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The package states that Mitsubishi sold the film. I remember Mitsubishi color print film. Possibly this was their in-house black and white film. That would be the most reasonable hypothesis rather than wondering if it came from a European company.
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