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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
Seems to be a popular choice.
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
Thanks for the heads up on Silverprint, they are cheaper for HP5+ than Amazon!
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![]() Mind you, it would be a good excuse to buy a couple of bottles of wine to carry under my arms whilst I look as pleased as punch for the camera. ![]() Thanks for posting some examples, we will prepare ourselves with a google search.
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
I always used HP5 with standard development in Microphen rated at 640. I preferred the grain to Tri-X. I think personal preferences is maybe what it comes down to, as always.
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Zuiko (13th December 2015) |
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
Another thing I do with my manual RF is to meter off an average grey in the scene, if it exists, or meter off the palm of my hand in the prevailing light. Once set, it only takes a slight tweak up or down in EV value as you walk around, or choose to expose differently for 'artistic' reasons. With a film camera the ISO is fixed, and if zone focusing the aperture is fixed, so once the SS is set it truly is a point and shoot camera, far quicker than any AF camera on the market. In fact with practice you don't need to raise the camera ito your eye, just fire off a frame or two. Extremely stealthy.
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Zuiko (13th December 2015) |
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John. I don't recommend racing up stairs on a Greek island, anymore. Lounging on the banks of a river might be more appropriate at our age😢
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Zuiko (13th December 2015) |
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
Personally I would go with Tri-X myself, preferably developed in D76.
I think it does depend on what developers are available in the darkroom she would be using, though. If they have D76 then Tri-X would be an obvious choice. If they lean towards Ilford developers, such as Ilfosol or DDX, then HP5 would be the obvious choice. Just one point about XP2, by the way, since several people mentioned it - I love XP2 and it doesn't have to be developed in C41 chemicals. It goes very well stand developed in Rodinal 1:100 for 60 to 90 minutes. Not that that has any relevance to the HCB look - either Tri-X or HP5 would be the best for that.
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Zuiko (14th December 2015) |
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
Tri X 400 deveploped in D76 or Rodinal 1-50 for a more gritty and sharper look was always my favourite for street and candid John,.
![]() Tri x 400 neg scan. ![]() Ilford Delta 3200 dev in ID 11 ![]()
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10 rolls sounds a lot and it certainly wasn't cheap, but it's only 360 shots! ![]()
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Re: B&W films for street photography - my daughter's latest A level project
The Delta 3200 shot is also impressive, Paul - much more detail and a lot less grain than I would have expected.
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