What film are you guys using?

Between my birthday and Christmas I just got a buttload of Tri-X for presents. Guess I'll be shooting that for a while. Yep, finally got some the hang of developing delta 100 recently. Its pretty great when you develop it well.
 
I use slide film only. Easier to store, fun to scan. However, there are some rolls of color Fuji (Superia) in the fridge, as well as a couple of Fuji 1600 B&W and two TMZ3200. Otherwise I have over 15 rolls of Scala, some 15 of Ektachrome 200, about the same in Elite Chrome 400, and some 10 of K-chrome 64 and 200.

But the Elite Chrome is only for the SLR, which I use with zooms only.
 
Russ said:
Peter

I think in the last couple of years, I've converted quite a few shooter's over to the Neopan 400. They love it. For the slow stuff, you can't go wrong with ACROS or Delta 100. I love the Delta 100.

Russ
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The problem is I bought quite a few rolls of HP5+ before I saw how this particular lab worked with it. Now I'm going to have to get rid of them... 🙁
 
peter_n said:
The problem is I bought quite a few rolls of HP5+ before I saw how this particular lab worked with it. Now I'm going to have to get rid of them... 🙁
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Peter

HP-5 is good film. Use it up, or give it away. Whenever I send out lenses, etc, I throw a few rolls of film in with them...

Russ
 
I know it's good film, Russ. I've found out that the lab I'm using (A&I labs in LA) allows custom dev. for a very small fee. So I can continue to use my HP5 but with less grain. 🙂
 
Not necessarily Peter. I believe there are mail order labs that do b&w decently enough. In fact, www.dp5.com can turn your regular, silver-based film into slides... for a price, though.

It's worth it. I'm not exposing my Fuji 1600 yet because I'm waiting for the right event and then I'll send it to them for a slide conversion.
 
I wish I was living in a place have a pro lab around me. All the so called pro labs in HK will all be closed as you have the time to drop by. They just open at working hours. The rest of the photo servicing chain shops will be opened after hours and holidays but only provide C-41 in reasonable time. As doing E-6, it takes 5 days, B/W for 7 days!

The most frustrate part happened to me today as I went to collect my slides after waiting for 5 days. I was totally fed up in final because the shop forgot doing push development on my Fuji Provia 400F @ 1600. Now, the whole roll of film is just extremely under.

Sorry I am out of topic for this thread but I was really angry.
 
SolaresLarrave said:
Not necessarily Peter. I believe there are mail order labs that do b&w decently enough. In fact, www.dp5.com can turn your regular, silver-based film into slides... for a price, though.
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Don't get me wrong, Francisco. A&I have done a great job processing my negs. Its just that the HP5 is grainier than the Neopan. Some people like grain but I don't, so I've been looking for a film/dev combo at 400ASA and it looks like Neopan 400/XTOL is it. 🙂
 
Jochan said:
I wish I was living in a place have a pro lab around me. All the so called pro labs in HK will all be closed as you have the time to drop by. They just open at working hours. The rest of the photo servicing chain shops will be opened after hours and holidays but only provide C-41 in reasonable time. As doing E-6, it takes 5 days, B/W for 7 days!

The most frustrate part happened to me today as I went to collect my slides after waiting for 5 days. I was totally fed up in final because the shop forgot doing push development on my Fuji Provia 400F @ 1600. Now, the whole roll of film is just extremely under.

Sorry I am out of topic for this thread but I was really angry.
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That's not good Jochan. 😡 Can you mail to a pro lab from HK? The lab I use is in Los Angeles and its probably as quick sending to HK as here on the east coast of the U.S.

Are there no mail order pro labs in HK? I can hardly believe that... 😕
 
Josef Brugger said:
Russ B. is bootlegging Fuji Neopan 400CN to some of us in the Portland area. So far the results are promising. Good tones and sharpness and a full ISO 400.
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you mean you actually have yours already?
i think the russ man is a big tease as i have yet to see any in my very cold mail box..

🙂joe
 
backalley photo said:
you mean you actually have yours already?
i think the russ man is a big tease as i have yet to see any in my very cold mail box..

🙂joe
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Joe Rizzy

Josef has his Neopan CN, because he makes the effort to see me on a regular basis. Actually, now that I think of it, that's probably why he tolerates me, to filch all this free film from me. I've also got him converted to the regular Neoapn 400 too. I don't want to dump too much information on him. You know how bewildered and overwhelmed these new photo students can get...

I assure you that your Neopan 400CN, will be leaving the States on Monday. Now if another neighbor (Jorge) were to accept my shooting offer's, he too, would have some Neopan CN in his possession.

Russ
 
Russ said:
Joe Rizzy

Josef has his Neopan CN, because he makes the effort to see me on a regular basis. Actually, now that I think of it, that's probably why he tolerates me, to filch all this free film from me. I've also got him converted to the regular Neoapn 400 too. I don't want to dump too much information on him. You know how bewildered and overwhelmed these new photo students can get...

I assure you that your Neopan 400CN, will be leaving the States on Monday. Now if another neighbor (Jorge) were to accept my shooting offer's, he too, would have some Neopan CN in his possession.

Russ
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i think there is just no pleasing you!😉

joe
 
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