Fave Film

Kostika on December 31st, 1969 at 5:00:00 PM

I use alot of differant films jsut to see how well they work. But in the end I keep coming back to Ilford films for my B&W work.



Which do you prefer?

Brian on September 15th, 2005 at 8:51:35 PM

I only made my first attempt at non-digital photography last summer and I did so with Kodak Chromatic film (basically slide fim) because I wanted to be able to scan it at a high DPI rather than actually make photographs from it, since I don't have access to a dark room. I went through a few rolls, but I've yet to get the developed, so I have no idea how any of it turned out.

Kostika on September 16th, 2005 at 2:54:37 AM

I've never used slide film so I don't know much about it. Would be interesting to see how they turned out though.



I'm opposite of you. I've always used film and only recently ventured into digital.

Brian on September 16th, 2005 at 7:52:57 AM

My dad used to be into photography, so he has a ton of good equipment, which i recently urged him to dig out. I'm attempting to learn the finer aspects of the manual process.

Lost on September 16th, 2005 at 12:09:18 PM

I don't really do much photography, but I have used some slide film before. It's really nice, comes out rich and colorful. You should definetly shoot it atleast once and give it a try. I am thinking about getting into film, but don't have my own camera. Maybe once I get some more cash.

Kostika on September 16th, 2005 at 1:14:16 PM

If you're thinking of trying out film then I'd suggest hitting a few pawn shops to find a basic SLR to use. You may even find a very good one. I'd also suggest not getting a computerised one, but a fully manual one. They're alot easier to learn how to use and much more fun to experiment with.

mEMPHISaRTgUY on September 16th, 2005 at 2:44:08 PM

Ilford is the best.... woo woo, use 400 for every thing! Love pushing.



Have you ever over cooked your during development? You can get the crystles to burst and get a paintery feel to your negitive, but practice on a few test rolls first.



As far as working in digital or non digital, its good to learn your foundations, but digital is the way to go, I did a whole semester with a 2.1 mega-pixel taking photos at 640 X 480 and I was getting great prints out of those, I was also using a epson color printer 3000, you can get a 1500 cheap.



Epson 3000- $120 (WTF?!?!?)

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but when it come time to hard film and silver based paper, you can use any flat screen monitor, and burn your images in to the film. I suggest bracketing so you have a light and dark to see which exsposure gave you the best negetive.



So I just said, shoot digital, edit digital, print digital for color / print manual for B/W.



No on the negitive side, on a LCD screen its hard to get a true black, which is why I bring you back to Bracketing. Always Bracket when shooting(in light).



I do shoot in zero light enviroments, not really needing bracketing there, its all experimental when you get to this point.



Ricky on September 27th, 2005 at 5:07:51 PM

Yep. I use Ilford. Its really good.

Drew on November 13th, 2005 at 7:57:22 PM

I use ilford 400 mainly. I also use Kodak Professional.

rebecca_crozier on April 14th, 2006 at 7:59:33 PM

Ilford HP5+ is my standard black and white film. I use it for almost everything. Oh, and Polaroid 600 film.

asonofashadow on May 24th, 2007 at 1:26:32 PM

Olms

Keith on May 24th, 2007 at 7:44:30 PM

Hmmm I dunno, I like the Road Warrior a lot. But then Peter Pan is also great.
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