Favorite B&W Film - With Examples

[Honus]

I wanted to try a new twist to an old theme. I am interested in both hearing AND seeing why you prefer a particular black and white film emulsion. I ask that all posters to this thread attach an example to support their reasons for preferirng a certain film.

I'll start by saying that I like just about all b&w films - but if I had to use only one it would be Tri-X. It is the most flexible film I have ever used. It can be pushed and pulled and still deliver the goods.

These were both taken with Tri-X, one @ 250iso and the other @ 1600iso. One developed in Rodinal and the other in X-tol.

Let the debate begin!

 

[colinh]

Hey are those 35 mm contact prints? 🙂

OK, here's my contribution...

This is a square crop, i.e. 24 x 24 mm, so 2/3 of the frame. Scanned at 5400 dpi. The second jpg is a 100 % crop from the first (so you can see all the pixels 🙂 )

These images are actually resampled from 400 kb 1000 pixel-wide jpgs - so the quality will have degraded a bit.

The film is SPUR Orthopan UR, developed in SPUR Nanospeed UR. This film is equivalent to ADOX CMS 20, I believe.

colin