Recommended film (C41)B&W & colour

[back alley]

hey, that's a familiar face!

how you doin'?

joe

 

[Bertram2]

Hi all,

Can you recommend 2 negative films for me? 🙂
Or just advise your favourites.!

Bear in mind that the photography stores here in Ireland aren't great, so nothing too rare. I've been to over 4 photography stores and none have ND filters, 100 ASA colour film etc.
Digital P&S are taking over!!

1. Colour, max 200 ASA.
I've been using Kodak Gold 200. It's not bad, sometimes a lot grainier than I'd expect.

2. C41 B&W. I've only seen Ilford XP2 here
400 would be Ok if it's not too grainy. Haven't tried, miatakenly bought some Tmax 100 thinking it would was C41.

Thanks!! 😀

Nick

1 = Superia 200

2= Kodak BW400CN

That's what I use, that 's what has turned out to work best for me.

Regards,
Bertram

 

[MJFerron]

My favorite color films are Fuji Reala 100 for Outdoor travel/landcapes and Kodak UC400 for a faster film. Low grain and beautiful skin tones.

 

[wlewisiii]

1) Fuji Reala CS for 100 and Fuji Supera for 400
2) Kodak BW400CN

I rarely use the C41 chromagenics now that I'm developing at home, but that one was my favorite when I was. I do love Plus-X and Tri-X a whole lot more though.

William

 

[Poptart]

I've never shot chromogenic film. My favorite color neg film depends on the use. I liked the two Vericolors (S for short & L for long) a lot but they're gone, aren't they? Now Fuji reporter 800 for a fast film. Plain old Kodacolor 200 is a good cheap general-purpose film. I don't shoot much color though so don't listen to me.

 

[Russ]

hey, that's a familiar face!

how you doin'?

joe

Joe

Sharona is keeping me buried in wedding shoots. Very soon though, she'll go to the PO to ship your package. (Neopan 400CN, prints, etc). I'll try to check in more often. My posting count must be miserably low. The Neopan 400CN, is also a great wedding film too. (I'll assume that you were referring to my ugly mug).

Russ (Kiron Kid)

 

[back alley]

(I'll assume that you were referring to my ugly mug).

oh yeah!

🙂joe

 

[Russ]

(I'll assume that you were referring to my ugly mug).

oh yeah!

🙂joe

😡 (A recent Neopan 400CN snap)

Russ

 

[Russ]

(I'll assume that you were referring to my ugly mug).

oh yeah!

🙂joe

Joe

Let me know what you think of the site that Sharona put together. It's still in the works. She still has many more more snaps to add to it.

http://www.quietlightphotography.com/

Thanks
Russ

 

[back alley]

wow, that's a pretty good site russ.

easy to navigate, read, nice & simple, good sample shots etc.

i can see why you're so busy.

joe

 

[Russ]

wow, that's a pretty good site russ.

easy to navigate, read, nice & simple, good sample shots etc.

i can see why you're so busy.

joe

Thanks. I've used the rangefinders on more than one occasion too.

Russ

 

[jmilkins]

Like Kris , I prefer the Kodak T400CN over the Ilford XP2, but that's becasue like Doug my minilab prints with XP2 were always a riot of sepia or cyan tones.

I also really like Reala for colour. The greens are landscape green not lurid green!

I've also started to do the PS mod to Black and white from (E6) colour that Kris mentioned, but still need to practise that, so the only one I've posted so far is this:

http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=15592&cat=4726&page=1

 

[Russ]

Like Kris , I prefer the Kodak T400CN over the Ilford XP2, but that's becasue like Doug my minilab prints with XP2 were always a riot of sepia or cyan tones.


http://www.rangefinderforum.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=15592&cat=4726&page=1

John

That's the result of an untrained machine operator.

Russ

 

[jmilkins]

Yes Russ, but then I'm an untrained Photoshop operator so I can't point the finger 🙂

 

[Bertram2]

John

That's the result of an untrained machine operator.

Russ

I hate it to correct you but this comes from printing C41 on colour paper instead of B&W paper. Happens often because of the two different workflow in some labs.
You have to let them dev the negs first and then you give them the negs a second time for printing on BW paper.
MY lab DOES print it on BW on demand but then they can't make me a CD because the CD is part of the C41+colour paper workflow. AAARRGH !!

In principle I found the Kodak sepia effect rather acceptable, sometimes even quite nice . XP2 prints with a greenish color cast , that's really ugly .

Best regards,
Bertram

 

[Russ]

Yes Russ, but then I'm an untrained Photoshop operator so I can't point the finger 🙂

John

My PhotoShop skills are nonexistent too. I know very little about digital and computer processing. Which is fine for me, for now. I just love film & film cameras.

Russ