what film? - for your camera

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what does everybody with a film camera use? i havent taken too many sking pics yet. tend to take a lot of other pics though. i normally use b&w like kodak tri-x 400 or the ilford delta range. ive just put a fuji slide film through my camera taking some pics of snowboarders. anysuggests on what colour films look good? do i need colour? im thinking i do, or does black and white work well?

 
Kodak elite crome slide film. It's really cheap on b&h and it takes great pictures.

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obviously it depends on your own personal style, which is one of the greatest things about photography (producing your style on film), I think that it is really important, especially when starting out to get down color and B&W in different conditions, lighting, types of shot, etc. But for overall use, my personal favorite film to use is slide film peticularly the Fuji Velvia 50. Its sharp, rich, and good for so many situations.

 
Ilford delta 400 and 100 BW.

Fuji 400 and 100.

Fuji Tungsten 64

Fuji Velvia 50 (I have a 100' bulk roll on the way)

 
i hate 400 speed film, and for some reason thats all i ever shoot with

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tmax 3200 or 400. its been about a year of nothing but t-max for my camera

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ya all my pics are fuji provIA 100F

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film is so much nicer though. you just cant feel your way round a digital camera the way you can a film camera.

 
yea, i use a lot of tri-x - just not for ski-ing yet. it got a great grain pattern if you push it to 1600 iso.

 
dont start this argument...i will only contribute one statement to this. film grain will always look nicer than digital noise. fullstop. no buts. film handles difficult conditions much better.

 
Provia 200

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Phrosty, you would need a digi-SLR with an image processor capable of about 26Megapixels to match the image quality you can get with an SLR

 
Its true. Even though like every photo studio uses digital SLRs now because its so much easier and the quality has greatly increased over the years, the fact is that you can get so much better pics with an SLR than with a digital SLR that will cost about 3 times as much. All it comes down to is convinience vs. highest quality.

 
Its true. Even though like every photo studio uses digital SLRs now because its so much easier and the quality has greatly increased over the years, the fact is that you can get so much better pics with an SLR than with a digital SLR that will cost about 3 times as much. All it comes down to is convinience vs. highest quality.

 
Lots of photo places don't even use Digi SLRs, just regular digis.

Some guy doing team photos at our school just had a Fuji 5MP digi cam hooked up to a laptop... it was kind of a weird set up for a professional place.

 
yea man i won't have to use film as soon as my dad decides to get his canon digital SLR. 13-megapixels, oh god thats shit-your-pants-its-so-good quality

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film has a greater latitude than digital (at least negative film does). you can be further out with the exposure and still retrieve a good image.

 
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