frankbernhard Posted August 6, 2009 Share #21 Posted August 6, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Portra 160 VC / NC is my daily workhorse. I’d love to give the Ektar 100 a try. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advertisement Posted August 6, 2009 Posted August 6, 2009 Hi frankbernhard, Take a look here What's Your Favorite Film?. I'm sure you'll find what you were looking for!
moikle Posted August 6, 2009 Share #22 Posted August 6, 2009 Cling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongrelnomad Posted August 6, 2009 Share #23 Posted August 6, 2009 Quick question: why the general preference towards the Kodak Portra line of films? I only ask as Portra 400NC aside (which ties with Pro 400H), I generally prefer each of Fuji's offerings in the relevant categories... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
j. borger Posted August 6, 2009 Share #24 Posted August 6, 2009 Quick question: why the general preference towards the Kodak Portra line of films? I only ask as Portra 400NC aside (which ties with Pro 400H), I generally prefer each of Fuji's offerings in the relevant categories... I prefer the Kodak/Porta colors to the fuji colors .... very subjective criterium! Why do you prefer Fuji? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finnkare Posted August 6, 2009 Share #25 Posted August 6, 2009 In 135 version:Fuji Neopan 400 and Kodak Tri-X 400 Are these each others substitutes or complements? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mongrelnomad Posted August 6, 2009 Share #26 Posted August 6, 2009 I prefer the Kodak/Porta colors to the fuji colors .... very subjective criterium!Why do you prefer Fuji? Because I prefer the colours! Touché! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
miami91 Posted August 6, 2009 Share #27 Posted August 6, 2009 Advertisement (gone after registration) Tri-X for B/W, Ektar 100 for slow colour, Portra 400 (NC or VC) for fast(er) colour. Jeff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
abrewer Posted August 6, 2009 Share #28 Posted August 6, 2009 My personal favorite is Porta 160NC and Ilford Hp5. How about you? I really like Kodak Ektar 100 for color negative, although some (Andy? are you listening?) have had trouble getting decent processing and end with horrid color I also like Agfa APX 100 (develop yourself or at a lab) and Ilford XP2 (C41 process) for B&W Slides (which I can't remember last time I shot): Velvia for landscapes, sports, general use; Astia for portraits (excellent skin tones) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
holmes Posted August 6, 2009 Share #29 Posted August 6, 2009 Fuji 50 & 100 to Astia 100, Provia 100 to Sensia. As to the whys, well Fuji 50 green is really green Hawaii comes to mind. The 100 is pretty close behind. Astia is hard for me to describe in the way it comes out. Provia 100 is to my mind the best all around general Fuji chrome. It seems to be able to handle most any situation; light, weather, extremes. It's green is not tropical lush of the Velvias. On one trip to Europe I took a brick (20 rolls) with me. I fired them off from bright daylight at the Munchen zoo, to the canals of Venice, the waterfront of Trieste, to poor old King Ludwig of Barvaria's castle. It was raining heavily that day. No sun, and the rain would suddenly start and I had to quickly cover my M7 and myself. I was using a Billingham bag so everything stay nice and dry.The Provia 100 handled the situation well. When I was back in the states and had sent the film to Fuji's lab in Phoenix Arizona I was a bit nervous.I shouldn't have been. The peacock's colors at the zoo came out magnificently. Shooting out from one of the 2nd or 3rd floor room windows in Ludwig's "Disney" castle, my shots down to the lower valley and village are awesome and the green is lush. Austria and Bavaria were in the midst of flooding, with part of the autoban closed. As for low night. I had my friend pull her Mercedes into a taxi only spot on one side of a bridge dusk. I wanted to try and get a long shot of vehicles coming across the bridge toward me and to a lesser extend away. I shot six chromes leaning up against a power pole. My friend was nervous in case of the German police coming by. No police and the chromes came out great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
topoxforddoc Posted August 6, 2009 Share #30 Posted August 6, 2009 HP5 and Kodachrome for me Charlie Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aurora_borealis Posted August 7, 2009 Share #31 Posted August 7, 2009 Fuji Neopan 100 @ 80 + Rodinal/Spur HRX-III or Fuji Neopan 1600 @ 1250 + Tetenal Emofin Neopan is amazing for prints! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
micky Posted August 7, 2009 Share #32 Posted August 7, 2009 Am I still the only one who´s tried the Kentmerefilm?? I wonder what other film that one is actually based on. (Ilford bought Kentmere some while ago) Ideas anyone?? :) Micky Ps. It´s an ordinary film. Not the T-max - Delta kind of film. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
StS Posted August 8, 2009 Share #33 Posted August 8, 2009 Tri-X and Astia. I hardly ever use colour negative film any more as I find it extremely difficult to scan (and get processed properly) So it's not (just) me or my scanner - this is one of the reasons I abandoned Fuji 160S. My standard film is BW400CN. I used XP2 for some years but BW400 won me over on the first roll. Kodachrome 200 was my standard material for years but I stopped using slides some time ago. Then some Kodachrome 64 lately, but I have just exposed my last roll of KC. Colour typically means digital to me... Stefan Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbretteville Posted August 8, 2009 Share #34 Posted August 8, 2009 Kodak TechnicalPan, Agfa APX 100, Tri-X and Ilford HP5. - Carl Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnastovall Posted August 8, 2009 Share #35 Posted August 8, 2009 Tri-X + D-76 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenneth Posted August 8, 2009 Share #36 Posted August 8, 2009 Kodak Tri-X 400 asa and Ilford Pan-F 50 asa. I always load a roll into each body. Interestingly Andy Barton showed images on this forum which he had rated Tri-X 400 at 320 asa and 1600 asa on the same roll of film. That is a pretty impressive film by my reckoning Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
matiasgd Posted August 9, 2009 Share #37 Posted August 9, 2009 Kodachrome and Provia 100 for slides Ektar 100 and Fuji Reala for color negatives Tri-X, Ilford Pan F and Rollei Retro 100 ( ex Agfa) for B&W Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mystic Posted August 9, 2009 Share #38 Posted August 9, 2009 Slide: Fuji Velvia 100F & Provia 100F Bw: Ilford Delta 100 Negative: Fuji Reala 100 & Kodak 200 UC Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicko101 Posted August 9, 2009 Share #39 Posted August 9, 2009 Woo first post! Slide: Provia 100, Velvia 50, Ektachrome 100G BW: Delta 100, Tri-X, BW400CN Colour Neg: 160S, Reala, both Portra 400 incarnations and if I'm hard up for money, Superia 200. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
imported_roberto Posted August 10, 2009 Share #40 Posted August 10, 2009 BW 35mm: XP2 Super 120: Agfapan 400+Rodinal / Tri-X+HC110 (XP2 in 120 is not available in my country) Color 35mm: Fuji X-TRA 400 and 800 120: Fuji Pro S 160 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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