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I'm continuing my experiment with using B&W film in ancient cameras for
the outdoor events. I have very little experience with film much less
cameras that are manual focus and manual exposure. I started this
at the Seattle
Exchange. But this time I'm using cheap crappy B&W film.
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This Agfa APX 400 is the worst of the lot. Good god. No contrast, no sharpness
and grain grain grain! I was shooting at ISO 320. I guess it's OK if you just
want to scan them and post them on the Internet but then maybe you could
use a Barbie Digital Camera for that.
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BTW the lenses I'm using are a 200mm f2.8, a 28mm f2.8, and a fifty year old
55mm f1.2.
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Uh, it looks like this 30 year old shutter doesn't work too well at
1/1000th seconds any more!
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OK now we're on to Kodak T-Max 400. Not so bad. It's got a little too much
grain but at least it has reasonable contrast. It's also very cheap.
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Doin' the Shim Sham.
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Next up... Ilford HP5 400. Not as much contrast (maybe I shouldn't have shot
it at ISO 320) but less grain than the other two. I think it looks smoother
than the FP4 I used at the Seattle Exchange and this is a faster film.
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It doesn't hold the overexposed areas as well as the Kodak. Blonde hair
and light areas tend to blow out but I did purposely overexpose it a little.
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Now I'm using my favorite B&W film -- Ilford XP2. Yes I used it at the
Seattle Exchange and it's awesome. Technically it's not B&W film (it's
color film treated to print B&W) and it's kind of expensive but damn
it's got everything! It scans very very well at 2000x3000.
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Do you see any grain here? I don't and I had them scanned at 2000x3000.
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Holy moly, see how smooth this film is?
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Here you can see how it falls apart with a little underexposure (the backlight
off of the building was throwing off the ancient meter). Areas get a little
grey but they don't grain out.
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