Preferred film for street photography (available light)

[centurion_sg]

Just wanted to have a simple rough poll to see locally what B&W films are popular in usage. The poll can't capture everything, especially different ISO preference within the same brand of films, and I probably missed out other brands available in Singapore.

Hope there'll be some open sharing on personal choices. Since it's personal, it is expected to be subjective. So far I've only tried Neopan 400 and Tri-X 400 at EI400 and prefer Neopan for its finer grain. Am moving ahead to try out HP5+ and TMax.

[ifirdauzi]

Originally Posted by centurion_sg So far I've only tried Neopan 400 and Tri-X 400 at EI400 and prefer Neopan for its finer grain. Am moving ahead to try out HP5+ and TMax.

TMAX, are they covering TMX, TMY and TMZ ?

[haagen_dazs]

.xp2.

[szekiat]

definitely tri-x. 2nd choice would be hp5. Hardly use the 100 speed films as they are quite hard to use indoors. Possible, but hard.... Tri-x allows me to push till 6400 with stand developing

[centurion_sg]

I was lost on this question, and did an online search and figured TMX, TMY, and TMZ refer to TMax ISO100, 400, and 3200. Glad you pointed out so I could learn more I guess it would not be fair to use "TMax" to cover all three types even though its under the same product brand. At the moment, I'll be trying the TMY.

Originally Posted by ifirdauzi TMAX, are they covering TMX, TMY and TMZ ?

[szekiat]

i think tmax, is the new name where they call themselves TMAX 100, TMAX400, TMAX3200. In the past, it used to be called TMX, TMY, TMZ. In generally they all have T-grain if i'm not mistaken. Don't normally use them.

[radedward]

I've tried the ilford ones as well as tmax but there's just something about tri-x that I just like. Can't really say what it is. Maybe it's a combination of the grain and contrast

[Ansel]

I just use whatever I happen to have in the fridge, which at this time is TMAX100, which I develop in Diafine, which automatically gets pushed to EI400.

[ckuang]

Kodak 400cn. Chromogenic film that can be processed in c41. Love the results from it and really easy to scan. Can pussh all the way to 1600 no problem at all. The black and white stuff on my blog from Europe, www.39voices.blogspot.com is all shot on Kodak 400cn.

[centurion_sg]

You mean you instructed the labs to push process C41 or did you mean you exposed it up to +2 stops?

Originally Posted by ckuang Kodak 400cn. Chromogenic film that can be processed in c41. Love the results from it and really easy to scan. Can pussh all the way to 1600 no problem at all. The black and white stuff on my blog from Europe, www.39voices.blogspot.com is all shot on Kodak 400cn.

[alansoon]

Is Neopan available in Singapore?

[centurion_sg]

Yes, I know Neopan 400 is available from Konota at Peninsula Plaza.

Originally Posted by alansoon Is Neopan available in Singapore?

[hacknet]

i like triX if the light is a little low, as it looks great after pushing alittle. if not, ilford pan 400 does perfectly fine. how's neopan compared to triX?

[brian]

Tri-X for me. I keep a few rolls of FP4+ just in case for daytime shoot, but for available light... Tri-X will do just fine pushed to 1600.

[RSphoto]

1.Tri-x
2.HP5
3. Lucky SHD100 when im on a tight budget

[archlover]

i fell in love with neopan 1600 >_<

[Martin Ywain]

Originally Posted by archlover i fell in love with neopan 1600 >_<

Same here! (:
Relatively 'fine' grain at ISO 1600 developed in T-max developer.
I think the FP4 is better for contrast, but it's only ISO 125. Never tried pushing it

[ndroo]

Originally Posted by archlover i fell in love with neopan 1600 >_<

Same here

[enivre]

Neopan 400 and Acros 100 for me... Acros is by far my favourite B&W film.

Not sure why but never been too big a fan off heavy grain.

[glchua]

XP2, which is not in the options.

Next will be HP5+ and lately TMax400 because everything else was out of stock a while back!