What's your favorite film?

[alcaraban]

HP5+, Reala, Provia 100 (but I'm not very happy with that one: currently looking for alternatives) and Amadeus.

I vote for tri-x and the big lebowski. Other films are often sharper of course,

Sharper than The Big Lebowski? I don't think so ...

 

[italy74]

My choices:

- reportage (B/W): Kodak T-max 3200
- weddings: Kodak Portra 160 or 400 NC
- landscapes: Fuji Velvia 100
- fashion: Kodak Ektachrome E100G
- always with me: T-max 400 or Portra 400.

 

[italy74]

Maybe you could set up a real "poll" with more available options..

 

[thawkins]

1. Delta 100
2. Reala 100
3. "The Party" starring Peter Sellers

 

[RetroGo]

Agfa Scala, when they made it. That broke my heart. Now HP5+. The Day the Earth Stood Still.

 

[Chris101]

trix, delta3200, hie, Journey to the Center of the Earth, Beetlejuice, and yeah tbl of course, like everybody else.

 

[telenous]

HP5, Neopan 400, Trix, they are all good in my book for the kind of shooting one usually gives them with a rangefinder (lots of pushing, minimal flash). If I had to choose one it would be HP5+ 400 but clearly it is as good or bad as the use you make of it. It works well for me in DDX. Neopan 1600 is another film I like, especially in D76+. From lower ISO ones my favourite is (was) APX 100 in Rodinal. In the absence of it, FP4 is just fine. For colour Kodachrome 64 and anything Provia.

1. HP5+ 400
2. Neopan 1600
3. APX 100
4. Kodachrome 64 and Provia 100/400

As for favourite film - 'Vertigo' it is...

 

[Ronald_H]

Tri-X 400.

 

[elude]

HP5+ (400, 800 asa) in D76 Stock 12 & 18 mins. For all purposes
APX100 in Rodinal in broad daylight or Moda
PanF 50 for command portraits

Nontheless your former choices of film remain excellent.

 

[northpole]

There is an interesting review of the new Velvia 50 in this week's Amateur Photographer - or at least I hope it is interesting - I haven't read it yet!!

Peter

 

[johnastovall]

Tri-X + D76

 

[rodneyAB]

TXP 320 in stock Xtol

 

[crawdiddy]

Color (colour for you Brits)..........Velvia (but scanning is a pain)
and Blue Velvet


B&W..........................................Tri-X
and Dr. Strangelove

 

[visiondr]

Ilford FP4+ fast enough to be usable, smooth like a vanilla milkshake on a hot summer day.

 

[irq506]

Its either Fuji Neopan 400 usually developed now in Xtol but back in the day Rodinal Special, the next best thing for that rich tonality and deep blacks would have to be Ilford HP5+ in Rodinal 1+25.

 

[sepiareverb]

I'll agree with TomA, stick with what you know at the beginning, then start branching out.

Neopan 400 is a recent favorite of mine, along with the Efke25- both handle snow wonderfully (and there is still plenty of that here- a meter of it on the ground).

 

[Anthony Harvey]

Tri-X in straight Microphen. It gives a wonderful range of mid greys without loss of overall contrast - the greys seem to have a special colour, as it were; and although easily sharp enough it's not too sharp so it keeps that sense of roundness and depth. I used to find that the combination showed itself best when printed on the old Ilfobrom grade 2, alas no more.

Laura Morante in Moliere.

 

[Damaso]

Tri-x in straight D76 as well...

 

[Dektol Dan]

Kodak Porta; all flavors for all occasions.

 

[John Robertson]

Konica IR 750 sadly no longer with us ( and it sadly did not keep well in the freezer)