What film are you guys using?

[summaron]

Kneedropper's second photo beautifully captures the look of the late, great Agfa 1000 film, with its muted, limited palette. (It also looks there a little like Cinecolor, a 1940's color movie film used by Republic Studios in some of their films, with only two color layers: blue and orange). Kodak 1000 neg film in the early 1990's had a nice washed out hard grain look....Currently I use Portra 800 in San Francisco at night with my Rollei 35S shooting at 1/15 to 1/2 sec. For late afternoon and evening I've rediscovered Plus X which I shoot with my contrasty Canonette giii 1.7 lens. I think I've finally gotten the development right, with D23 w. slightly longer than normal time, but gentle agitation every 2 or so minutes. Beautiful soft whites and nice separation of charcoal greys from blacks, appropriate to my subjects, simple and blunt and geometric. Better maybe than APX 100!

 

[zuikologist]

Fuji Superia (all ISO) and Ilford XP2. I have some Neopan 400CN on order and look forward to using it.

Does anyone have experience with Agfa Ultra 100? I saw this on another forum. It looks interesting for the right subjects.

http://www.onfal.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=15&topic_id=2997&mesg_id=3009#3001

 

[Roman]

I have used Ultra 100 for holiday snaps - really saturated colors, in sunny weather sky looks almost unrealistically blue (like a postcard); kind a like the Velvia of color negative film.

Roman

 

[peter_n]

Hi summaron and welcome to the forum! 🙂 Would like to see some of your night shots so when you have some time upload a few into the gallery here (no restriction on size) 🙂 .

 

[Russ]

Fuji Superia (all ISO) and Ilford XP2. I have some Neopan 400CN on order and look forward to using it.

Does anyone have experience with Agfa Ultra 100? I saw this on another forum. It looks interesting for the right subjects.

http://www.onfal.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=15&topic_id=2997&mesg_id=3009#3001

http://www.photographyreview.com/Print,Film/Agfa/PRD_144890_3120crx.aspx

Russ

 

[zuikologist]

Thanks Roman and Russ. I had in mind holiday snaps or a special project (will probably have to wait for summer sun) to use those saturated colours.

 

[surlysimon]

I got converted to Fujis products on a recent visit to japan, now i am using mostly Neopan 400 and Across 100 (with the occasional roll of illford for old times sake) for B&W and fujichrome for slides.
Have a look at my gallery for examples, but forgive the quality i only have an epson flat bed with slide attachment and am still learning how to get nice sharp scans.

 

[Russ]

I got converted to Fujis products on a recent visit to japan, now i am using mostly Neopan 400 and Across 100 (with the occasional roll of illford for old times sake) for B&W and fujichrome for slides.
Have a look at my gallery for examples, but forgive the quality i only have an epson flat bed with slide attachment and am still learning how to get nice sharp scans.

Simon

I discovered the Neopans years ago, and love them. However, I still find the Delta's to be excellent films.

Russ

 

[tmorley]

Kodak UC 400 (print) or Velvia 100 (slide) Occasionally Provia 400