OK, now I've got THREE comments in this thread. Sorry for the overload.
I like B&W, even scanned. Converted color film doesn't easily come out the
same as B&W film. There's a whole world of opinion and techniques for
converting from color to greyscale to mimic different B&W films, so I won't
go there. But the look of good B&W is different than converted color in
many cases. YMMV of course.
OK, now that I've gotten THAT out of my system, I use the new Delta 400
Professional, which is very nice. I actually had a terrible time getting
the Tmax films to develop properly with Xtol, so I switched to the Delta
line. Delta 100 has actually been rated as the finest grained B&W film
available today except for Tech Pan. (Not my rating, but I think Erwin
Puts' from the Netherlands)
The bottom line is that in 100 and 400, there are superb choices from Kodak,
Ilford, Fuji, and Agfa. Choose a couple in each speed and shoot/develop
them and take what you like. I chose the Delta films (100, 400, 3200)
because they developed well in my setup, they scan well, they're
fine-grained, and they offer good latitude and tonality. What more could I
want?
SKip
From: Jim Couch <JamesBCouch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [OM] B&W film recommendations
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:38:05 -0800
Which Ilford 400? as I recall there are at least 3, HP5, Delta 400, and
XP-2.
Personally, if you are going to scan it anyway, I don't know that I would
even
use a B&w film. Use your favorite color (the Superia) and grey scale it.
B&W
films come into their own when you shoot the film and process and print it
yourself IMHO.
OK, now that I got that out of my ssytem... If you watn finer grain Kodak
Tmax
400 has a finer grain than most other 400 ASA B&W films. If the speed is
not
needed The Iford Delta 100 or Kodak Tmax 100 are very fine grained. If you
want a more 'traditional' B&W film with fine grain the Ilford FP4 125 or
Kodak
Plus-X 125
Speaking of B&W films, anybody tried the new Ilford Delta 400 Pro film?
Jim Couch
Olympus wrote:
> I just tried some Ilford 400. It was not bad... UNTIL I scanned it!
Very
> grainy.. Maybe 2x as grainy as the Fuji Superia that I'm use to.. So..
> I'm looking for recommendations of B&W.
>
> thanks.
> Albert
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