Film with XPan II

Unfortunately, you'll have to define 'best'. What sort of photography are you looking forward to using the Xpan for?

Clarence
 
As Clarence said, everything is relative.

However, I would suggest using 135 rollfilm.
I prefer Ilford for B&W work, and Fuji for color chromes.
 
erikhaugsby said:
As Clarence said, everything is relative.

However, I would suggest using 135 rollfilm.
I prefer Ilford for B&W work, and Fuji for color chromes.
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I agree, Ilford has a good selection of B&W films and fuji velvia 50 or 100 is hard to beat if you`re into landscapes, enjoy your xpan!
 
Well considering the xpan is a pano camera, ie used for taking landscapes, transparency films are your best choice (altho more expensive), and my pick would also be Fuji Velvia 50 & 100..... (altho 50 has been discontinued and becoming scarce in my country now).
 
Trouble with the slower chromes is vignetting if you don't have the center filter.

I'm a B&W guy, and I've seen that Neopan Acros is just about as fine grained as Velvia 100. Close, at least.

But, you'll never beat Velvia 50 or 100 for landscapes, vignetting or not.
 
As others have said, it depends on what you want.

I'm also new to the XPan (bought an original XPan-1 in mid-May), but I've been shooting regular 35mm with my Canon 1N for a while. I generally go between Kodak E100VS and Fuji Velvia 100. I recently bought a few rolls of Kodak BW400CN for B&W, but haven't loaded any of it yet.

So far, all I've had processed from the XPan has been E100VS, but I have a roll of Velvia 100 in it now. As soon as that's done, I'll load the B&W.
 
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