Cheap B&W film for testing ebay cameras?

[wwfloyd]

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[Scottboarding]

Kentmere 100 is cheap and comes in 24 exposure rolls. It's also very touchy about overexposure and gets very dense very fast. I have images shot one stop over and the negative is very dark. It would be a great film to test if a shutter is slow in a camera being that one stop is a very noticeable difference in the negative.

 

[Jeremy Z]

Kentmere 100 is cheap and comes in 24 exposure rolls. It's also very touchy about overexposure and gets very dense very fast. I have images shot one stop over and the negative is very dark. It would be a great film to test if a shutter is slow in a camera being that one stop is a very noticeable difference in the negative.

Not interested in touchy films, even if they are cheap. That big latitude is one thing that brought me back to film in the first place.

I'm enjoying the Fomapan so far. The only problem is that since I used it to test cameras, if the neg comes out badly, I don't always know if it is the film (too touchy) or the camera. (something wrong.)

Here are a few images. It helped me determine my Yashica Electro 35 CC was in need of a CLA. The negs were mostly too thin and the shutter speeds didn't quite sound right. Nevertheless, I got a couple keepers with it this past weekend, thanks to the magic of digital post-processing:

I really like the way the grain looks:

The top 12 images in my Flickr photostream were with this lens and the aforementioned Yashica:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/182935075@N04/

Thanks for the suggestions, fellas! 😎