gfen wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jul 2006, Adam Maas wrote: > >>Fuji Acros, Kodak Tri-X, Ilford PanF+. > > > I'm a little out of touch, as I've been living off of frozen stockpiles in > 35mm film and don't really shoot it often anymore. > > In B&W, from Kodak, I used Tri X for high speed and Plus X for low speed > film. I'm unsure if Plus X is still available, its probably not as it was > always my favourite.
Plus-X is still available, but can be hard to find. Tri-X will likely outlast every other Kodak B&W film. Tri-X is my do-everything film, I shoot it from EI 200-6400 on a regular basis. > > As Kodak began to abandon the product lines I care about, I decided I > wasn't going to continue to line their pockets and I began to give my > money to Ilford. HP4 and FP5 were the highspeed/low speed match I opted > for there. I think you mean FP4 and HP5. I've never liked either, they just don't do it for me. PanF+ is the only Ilford film I've truly taken a liking too (Although I've had good results with Delta 100 in TMax Dev 1:4, but since Acros loves Rodinal, I don't bother with Delta) > > I have never used Fuji in B&W. No reason, jsut never bothered. I've heard > plenty of good things about Acros, though. Acros is wonderful stuff. It's a modern T grain film like TMax or Delta, but does well in traditional developers (unlike Delta), has no reciprocity failure out to 120 seconds and is far less sensitive to minor variations in development than TMax. Neopan 400 is also a superb Tri-X replacement (And Neopan 100 SS and Neopan 1600 are also good films). > > For colour film, I've been going through Kodak Superia and Gold both in > 100. I'm pretty sure they're both dead end products, too. When it comes > time to buy more, I'll probably switch from Kodak to Fuji, but I am > unfamilar with their colour selection. > Superia is actually Fuji, not Kodak. I actually also shoot Silvertone 100 and 400, which are either an APX clone or from APX master rolls (the confusion as to the Silvertone and Rollei Classic origin with respect to APX increases every day). -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
