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I_am_nietzsche
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Username: I_am_nietzsche
Post Number: 17
Registered: 02-2008
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, April 03, 2008 - 05:54 pm: | 
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We all have opinions when it comes to our film...
Favorite C-41 Black & White Film?
Illford XP 2?
Fuji Neopan?
Kodak BW?
How about C-41 Color Film?
Fuji Reala?
Fuji Superia?
Kodak Portra?
What film has given the best daylight results?
How about indoor results?
Skin tones?
Landscape?
I'd be interested in reading others opinions... and perhaps trying some new film. |
Alex
Tinkerer
Username: Alex
Post Number: 52
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 07, 2008 - 04:22 am: |
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I like XP2, and have done since it was XP1. The tonal range of HP5 with the sharpness of FP4. My favourite portraits of my daughter when she was four years old were taken on XP1. The downside is that its archival properties are poor. These favourite portraits only exist in print form, the negatives have deteriorated to the point of unusability.
I like the punchiness of Superia, which is great for sports and touring and that sort of stuff, and the more muted colours of Reala for portraits.
I'm still a B&W man. My wife cannot understand it. Or she didn't until I took a picture of our daughter with her own hours-old daughter, sepia toned it, put a vignette round it, and printed it. It's now a family favourite portrait, and not a colour molecule in sight.
Alex |
John_shriver
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Username: John_shriver
Post Number: 34
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 08:13 pm: |
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In 35mm, Portra 400NC is my mainstay. I went through a bulk roll of Delta 400 and liked it, now I need to develop my first roll of new T-MAX 400 (TMY-2) and see if I want to switch. For 100 speed B&W, I'm impressed with T-MAX 100. (I didn't like the old T-MAX 400. Icky grain.)
For classics, whatever I can get! Well, Verichrome Pan is wonderful film. Portra 160NC in 46mm (for 127) and 70mm (for 116/616). I love my 70mm Tri-X for 616! |
John_shriver
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Username: John_shriver
Post Number: 35
Registered: 12-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, June 02, 2008 - 08:15 pm: |
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Oh, in 122 size, it's Verichrome Pan all the way, since that's all you can find that is alive. M'mm. |
Alex
Tinkerer
Username: Alex
Post Number: 64
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 05:44 am: |
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I don't suppose there is any chance of persuading Kodak to license the VP emulsion to another producer, like Fuji. I'd love to have Verichrome in my Isolette again.
Incidentally, I've been working on the scanning of my entire colour neg inventory, going back forty years or so, for cataloguing purposes. So far, those that have suffered the least in terms of fading and colour shift have been the Agfa emulsions. |
Dgillette4
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Username: Dgillette4
Post Number: 216
Registered: 04-2007
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 03, 2008 - 12:05 pm: |
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I like xp2 super for it's neutral negative color prints easier on b/w paper.. Don |
