Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/08/31
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:11 AM 8/28/96 -0400, you wrote: >I'd be interested in hearing people talk about their favorite black and >white films that they have used with M-series lenses. My personal favorite >has been XP-2 but I'm interested in hearing about other films and reasons >for trying them.... > I've used Ilford HP5+ (and it predecessor, HP5) for almost all of my shooting for the last 20 years. As best I can recall, I originally started using the film because it "pushed" better than Tri-X did at the time, but I stick with it now mainly because I know how it will behave, and I like the results I get with it --- a nice range of tones with M lenses. "Pushability" isn't so important now, since I use T-Max P3200 for the really low-light stuff. I've been shooting it since it came out (around 1989, I think), but I'm only beginning to get the drift as to its capabilities. Chuck Albertson Seattle, Wash.