| | Which brand of film do you use most often?
For my work, nothing but the most light sensitive films will do. 99%+ of what I shoot these days is Fuji print 1600. Beats the pants off the equivalent speed Kodak, in my view. Sharper, less grainy, better shadow detail, cleaner highlights, vastly superior color rendition under any light source. The new 4 color layer Fuji films are simply awesome.
For b&w I've always used Kodak, but I haven't shot b&w in a long time. Why bother. I scan color and turn it into b&w on the puter. Back then Tri-X and T-Max 3200 were the norm for me. Tri-X outside, rated @ 200 for maximum shadow detail and slightly underdeveloped for finer grain. T-Max 3200 rated at 1250 for the same reasons.
Before I managed to convince my clients that color neg is far superior to slide film for the work I do, I used to use Scotch 640T, pushed to 1250. Scotch was bought by Imation, so the name changed to Imation 640T (the T stands for tungsten). Hard to find these days. Awful looking film. Grain the size of golfballs, flat as a pancake, no real blacks, muddy highlights, tends toward red and blue, but, was the fastest on the market, and had unbelievable latitude for a slide film, so for stage stuff, it was what I used. Yes, there is a better looking tungsten film on the market, the Kodak 320T, but it's too slow for my needs, too contrasty, and way too orange for my taste.
Love the Fuji 1600 though. Best film I've ever had in my cameras! |
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