Which is your favourite 35mm B&W film?

Ilford FP4+ (35mm was good, but then I put a 120 through my Autocord), but currenly looking forward to whacking a roll of Efke R100 through a Kodak Brownie 127 mk3. 😀
 
Tri-X or Neopan 400. Both rated at EI 200. Both work equally well for me. I have used Tri-X since forever, and it is my "go to" film of choice, but recently I have used Neopan as well and feel just as comfortable with it....
 
TriX and PlusX in Rodinal, love the tones and grain, unmatched.
HIE in D76.
And sometimes i like the completely different look of the fuji range, great films too.
 
As far as slow film goes, I really like Ilford Pan F 50 Plus.
Sitting in the middle it has to be Delta 400.
Fast film? Neopan 1600, hands down.
 
Ilford XP2 Super: my all-weather-figther choice for b/w. Easy to work with, (relatively) hard for a lab to screw up. When my own developing "facilities" are once again set up (mainly a matter of where the electric film dryer gets mounted...everything else is relatively flexible), I'll get back to my HP5 and one or two slower emulsions. But even then, XP2 stays in the picture.


- Barrett
 
Interested, I just overhauled my Yashica E35 GSN. The associate at the local Penn Camera here in N. VA recommended Fuji Acros Neopan100. So, I purchased, never having heard of this film. If I repaired my ligh tseals correctly I will post the results of this film.
 
Lately I've shot with some cheap Neopan (125) and found I like its results. But overall my favorite B&W film is 125/400 Ilford. My MP is loaded up with Fuji-100 as we speak and I have several rolls of Ilford HP-5 (400) for unexpected conditions. I know I can ramp up the HP-5 at least three times (1200) if necessary. What more can one ask for ?
 
adox 25. No doubt at all. when high speed is needed, i have used hp5, trix, adox 100 pushed, and im going to try fomapan soon.
 
Ilford FP4 and HP5 are my favorites

FP4+
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HP5+
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Trius said:
Gene: Click here for a link to the APUG discussion of APX being "resurrected"; I'm not convinced it will be the same, or even if they will be successful. But I do hop it works out.
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I guess they mean the Rollei Retro 100. I learned from this very forum it existed (I had swithced to Fuji Acros and SS100 and I did not know about the Rollei film), wanted to order a few from Fotoimpex but I ended up ordering what might be some of the last true APX100 rolls (and I have two 4x5" sheet film packs in the fridge). I will try that one as soon as the last APX100 will be finished...

GLF
 
I shot a couple of rolls of Neopan 1600 recently, and it wasn't half bad. In fact, the prints show much less grain than I expected. Of course the big plus is that you can shoot with reasonable shutter speeds under the crummiest of circumstances.

But, I've now got a couple of rolls of TMZ 3200 lying around, first one of which is currently being processed and printed. Can't wait to see the results..
 
Absolute fav? Plus-X. But I expect Kodak to pull the plug w/in 2 years because the current management is really quite stupid. OTOH we might get lucky and they'll spin it off rather than just flat out kill the BW film division.

Real world & will still be there in 10 years? Fomapan 100. The nice thing is that the Foma acts almost exactly the same for me in Diafine. 😀

William
 
Tri-X as my standard film. I know it "by heart" having shot it since it was rated at 200ASA and considered a radical film by the press shooters! "200 ASA, thats impossible, grain must be HUGE". It is not a perfect film, but it will always give you a neg with something on it! I have pulled and pushed it more than taffy at a fair! As slow as 6 ASA and as fast as 6400, not pretty but it worked.
I suspect that the world is divided into two groups of people, Tri X shooters and HP5 shooters. Religion, color, creed, politics we can always find a middle ground. With the Tri X versus HP5 - not a chance!
An other favourite of mine is Kodak's movie stock Double XX. Rates 250 ASA in daylight and 200 in tungsten. It is the same old style emulsion as movies like "Casablanca", The Third man, and I suspect that George Clooney used it for "The Good German". As it is a movie stock it is biased towards the mid tones and if you use a developer like D-76 or D-96 (Kodaks developer for this film) you get nice tonality and still retains high light separation. Comes in 400ft/1000ft or even 3000ft cans!
I do use other films, but Tri X is always at hand.
 
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