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Can someone recommend me a decent film? I've had a roll of cheap Fuji C200 through my camera and it looks to be working fine. Would like to get some better film to have a proper play about but haven't got a clue what to buy? I think someone mentioned Kodak tri x 400?

Thanks in advance :-) apologies if this seems like a stupid thread!
 
In terms of black and white...Tri-X or Kentmere 100 give a nice classic look. Acros 100 for maximum detail :)
 
Depends if you want to do colour or black and white, and slides or negs/prints. Fuji C200 is a colour negative film, so I'd recommend you try Fuji Reala (100 ISO) which I like the best for negs. If you want B&W then Tri-x 400 is fine, or you could try Ilford FP4 (100 ISO) or HP5 (400 ISO).
 
magicolor1 said:
Depends if you want to do colour or black and white, and slides or negs/prints. Fuji C200 is a colour negative film, so I'd recommend you try Fuji Reala (100 ISO) which I like the best for negs.
Can I just point out that you can't actually get Fuji Reala in 35mm anymore.

For colour neg, the best stuff really is Kodak Portra 160 or 400, their the latest colour neg films on the market and are frankly amazing in terms of grain, dynamic range , latitude (hardly any difference in image quality if exposing from -2 to +3 stops with normal processing) and just general quality although you do have to pay the price for that of course! When its a bit sunnier you might also want to try Kodak Ektar 100, it gives fantastic saturated pictures (although to get the effect best you need good exposure as underexposure sends it more blue and overexposure even more saturated).

For B&W I would initially just have a go with some Ilford XP2 Super or Kodak BW400CN as their more easily and more cheaply processed (they are B&W but actually special colour neg films so their processable in about every lab around) than proper B&W as so few high street labs have B&W processing these days; for the best processing though mail order is the way forward, look at the stickied thread at the top of the page.

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s162216 said:
Can I just point out that you can't actually get Fuji Reala in 35mm anymore.
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That's a shame if true! The Fuji website still seems to list it although I can't see it for sale at amazon. The last time I used it was in 120 roll film, so I must be out of date with 35mm films :(

For colour neg, the best stuff really is Kodak Portra 160 or 400
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That would be my next choice after Reala - particularly the 160 which is a great film, but the colour pallet is completely different from Fuji.
 
Thanks for the great advice folks, ill be getting whatever I shoot developed onto a cd, hopefully at higher resolution than Asda did when I had the C200 developed, this way I can have a mess about with them before I get them printed if needs be.

Thanks again for the help :-) most informative lol
 
magicolor1 said:
That's a shame if true! The Fuji website still seems to list it although I can't see it for sale at amazon. The last time I used it was in 120 roll film, so I must be out of date with 35mm films :(


That would be my next choice after Reala - particularly the 160 which is a great film, but the colour pallet is completely different from Fuji.
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You can still get it in 120, they stopped making the 35mm about 3 years ago now and at the time there was a lot of misinformation that they had discontinued it completely, I used it once and quite liked it so I was a little annoyed it might be gone and emailed Fuji UK who confirmed that it was still going to be around in 120 (no good for me as I only shoot 35mm so far!)
 
For the colour; the Portra range 160, 400, 800 is really nice.
 
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Maybe Mark the Mod might sell you his pack of twenty Reala ? We bought them the same time, outdated but still excellent.
 
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