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

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

  • B & W only

    Votes: 96 12.9%

  • Color only

    Votes: 77 10.4%

  • Both (both loaded)

    Votes: 225 30.3%

  • Both (B & W loaded. Color on standby)

    Votes: 94 12.7%

  • Both (Color loaded. B & W on standby)

    Votes: 57 7.7%

  • B & W film and color digital

    Votes: 168 22.6%

  • Color film and B & W digital

    Votes: 3 0.4%

  • What film? I am all digital

    Votes: 23 3.1%
  • Total voters
    743
Both, Tmax400, or Trix, and Ektar, or Fuji Superia 100. I use a Konica C35, Olympus Stylus Infinity, Olympus RC35, or a Petri 7s if by air (the 35RC and the Petri are get for flash both synch to 1/500). If by car then I use a Ricoh DiacordG and/or a Folder.
 
On busimess trips, I bring my CLE w/ VC 28 2.0 and 40 summicron-c and LX3 for color. Oh and some LR44s just in case. If I travel on holiday the M3 comes along with 50 hex and 90 hex on an F2 with lots of room for film. lightmeter, etc.
 
Most of the time both. Even if I'm just wandering around my neighborhood. Either it's two cameras with one in each or two backs. Especially when travelling I make sure to have both.
 
Any trip up to about a week and on the same continent i live on, then just B+W film. Anything longer or further away then i'll take a digi. compact along also.
 
Unless I plan to encounter something specially colorfull, it is B&W only for me. I just can't get decent C41 locally anymore- and I hate to have my memories ruined by a lab.
 
I leave for Rome and Florence next weekend. I'm loading Fuji Neopan 400 in one camera and Kodak 400NC/160NC in the second camera. I figure I can't go wrong.
 
Scorpius73: Looks like a great combo to me.

I'm leaving for Egypt in 5 weeks time and will be loading TriX in one and also Fuji 400H in the other (after much contemplation). I figure i can't go wrong too........... hopefully =D
 
It seems that I differ from most in that I am usually attempting to create a meaningful body of work or a cohesive photo series. The time frames range from as short as a few weeks to as long as three years.

That means that almost always, the photos must be either exclusively b&w or exclusively color. It just does not seem to work for my taste to have b&w and color mixed in a photo series.

So once I really get started, the either b&w or color decision is fixed. For my upcoming trip, I knew I was going to carry either 50 rolls of b&w or 50 rolls of color, but not some combination. B&W won out since that is what works for me most of the time.
 
When I travel, I just take pics of interesting things and scenes that I see, rather than trying to create a meaningful body of work or a cohesive photo series. (You're way ahead of me, Bob.) I shoot mainly B+W for "my" pics, and colour for family snaps and albums. Sometimes a scene demands to be shot in colour. Taking both colour and B+W means 2 cameras, and this is good insurance in case one camera happens to suffer technical difficulties while far from home.
 
For me it depends on the time of year, in Autumn and winter i tend to shoot colour - normally Fuji Pro400H but i do trade off to other stock occasionally, and in Summer i tend to shoot more Black and white, i think mainly because I'm yet to find a good quality film that can truly replicate the colours and tones of the british summer.

I am trying to change these habits and always have colour film, mainly as i don't have access to a traditional b/w darkroom anymore
 
The honest answer it depends. Depends on where I'm going and what I'm shooting. While I might carry both odds are I'm only shooting one or the other when it comes to film. If I have a digital then that will often do duty for color...
 
I usually load both; chromes in My M4-P, B&W in my IIIf.

I made the mistake of taking only my M on a trip last week; the weather was so dreary that it seemed it took forever to get through a roll of K64. Ended up shooting Tri-X @ 1250, indoors and out.
 
For a while it was "all color, all the time", but now is both.

The last two months:
1: Mexico 1: 17 rolls of 120 C-41 (2 weeks)
2: Mexico 2: 10 rolls of 120 C-41, 2 35mm E-6, 2 120 B&W (1 week)
3: Colorado: 10 rolls 120 B&W, 5 rolls 120 E-6 (overnight, all photo)

Whatever I am doing, it is moving away from C-41.
 
Mostly color film as I don't really do much photographing while I'm away from home but I do some sort of travel documenting. I guess you sense the difference.
 
I prefer b/w but will only shoot it if the light is right for it. If it is harsh or flat lighting then I'll shoot color print film. For any kind of low light I shoot digital.
 
I'm not able to concentrate on color and B&W in the same time. Untill a couple of years ago I was only shooting slides (provia, velvia). Now I mainly shoot B&W and leave my wife to shoot colors (film) for usual documentation album. In some cases I shoot color with my mob phone (I had never dream to do this!). It also depends on where we go. For next winter vacations in the alps it will be colors for sure.
robert
 
Bringing the wife

Bringing the wife

I just shoot b&w usually a mix of 100 and 400. If my wife is along on the trip she shoots with a digital p&s for the family record. Likewise, family functions are almost always documented with the digital camera. Over the years she has gone from someone who didn't know how to hold a camera to someone who now says "what do you think about putting such and such in the foreground?"
 
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