Film: Color or B & W or both when you travel?

[djhurley92]

Black and white seems for flexible for travelling; I just carry a load of HP5 and push or pull process if conditions change drastically.

 

[redhawk]

I usually have both Ms with me wherever I go whether it's locally or abroad. M3 is always B&W and the M6 usually has color, positive or negative. If I have to travel really light I'll pick one for what I think I'll encounter or as the mood strikes me.

 

[bastian a.]

I always decide at home if I take colour or b&w ... it depends on where I travel to.

 

[Robin P]

I'm all digital now but not long ago I would shoot colour digital and B&W film on holiday - it's the B&W pics that I remember and revisit from time to time 🙂

 

[Ronald M]

My Leica digital does both in same camera same time. Nikons do the same

 

[Moto-Uno]

Any time my wife and I travel to Oaxaca ( Mexico ) it's always transparencies that are
loaded and a couple of B&W rolls in the bag. Way too colourful for just B&W. Peter

 

[narsuitus]

What films do you bring when you travel?

I shoot film and digital, color and black & white, stills and video.

I consider myself traveling whenever I leave the house, office, or studio.

When I travel, I carry whatever I need to complete the assignment.

There are times when I shoot a wedding and carry 35mm portrait film as a backup to digital.

There are times when I shoot wedding candids with digital and wedding group portraits with 6x9cm color roll film.

There are times when I shoot landscapes with medium format color roll film and shoot digital test shots.

There are times when I shoot large format black & white sheet film and shoot digital test shots.


Film Simulation by Narsuitus, on Flickr

 

[grouchos_tash]

I stress myself about this decision every time I go on holiday and every time I get back I wish I hadn't bothered with colour. When will I learn my lesson?!

Last trip to Itally I took my M6 with Tmax100, Portra 160 and Ektar.

 

[danwilly]

I bring my two Bessa R's, one with wide angle and the other with 50 mm lense, loaded with black and white. I use a point and shoot digital for color and snapshots. Going to St. Genevieve, MO next month and plenty of antebellum architecture to shoot.

 

[mike rosenlof]

BW film only, but if I'm traveling with my wife, she'll have color digital that I can borrow if I need to. I do better to keep my head in one direction. That color stuff is hard.

 

[JChrome]

I shoot my 120 cameras when I travel and its always color.

I stocked up on Portra 160 and 400 and that stock is waning down. I recently acquired lots of Provia 100F and am excited to use it.

I shot Thailand with Provia 100F years ago and just loved it 🙂.

 

[FrankS]

When I first voted in 2009, it was both in film. Now it's digital colour and B+W film.

 

[fixbones]

Wow, can't believe I started this thread 6 years ago and it is still going!
Many things have changed and I have taken a hiatus from film photography and photography in general.
Making my way back again and I am restructuring my collection of great cameras and lenses.
Will most likely end up doing colour film and digital colour and B/W.
Time will tell 🙂

 

[bsdunek]

I generally take two Nikon F/FTN's when I travel. Use one for color and the other for B&W. Just like to be covered.

 

[Pioneer]

It kind of depends on where I happen to be going.

If I am headed up the side of the mountain to Machu Picchu I am less concerned with color so I am pulling the black and white out.

If I am headed to Pella, Iowa to photography the tulips I am bringing the Provia and Velvia and hoping for gorgeous blue skies with puffy white clouds.

Most of the time I carry both. Color negative or slide film for the Rolleiflex and black and white in the M-A or LX.