 Yash |
HELP - lukin for tips I m new to Photography .. I m using Canon 3000V with the general zoom lens provided with the camera 28-90mm f 4-5.6 ..i am interested in black and white and like to know the best film to start with and whether I have a suitable lens ...
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John P. Sandstedt |
Use Kodak Tri-X. It's probably the best "universal" B&W film. It's got an ISO-400 rating. Kodak T-Max films offer less grain and, depending on what you're final desired result may be, is the the film you'll grow toward. It's available in several ISO-speeds. Ilford makes several great B&W - they're comparable to the similar Kodak films but are more difficult to find.
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Yash |
thx... I m also lukin 4 gud general lens in 70 - 300 mm or somthing like tht .. cud u sugest somthngs abt it .. also do the regular one hour shops print b&w without giving it sepia tone ...
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Jon Close |
Regular one hour shops do not do traditional b&w developing (Tri-X, T-Max, most of Ilford's offerings). They are set up to do C-41 color print processing. There are some very good black and white films that are made for C-41 developing and printing on color paper: Ilford XP2 Super 400 and Kodak BW400CN (also goes by "Black & White 400") being the most popular. The 1-hour shops print this film on color paper, so to prevent sepia (or blue or green) tinting you need to tell them to print as black & white without toning. And the shop personel have to be competent enough to adjust their printers to do that. ;-) Better photo processors will print these on b&w paper if requested (may be an extra charge).
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