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Can anyone tell me what would be a very good B&W 35mm film for portraits,
Paul Tomo
Paul Tomo
I've always been a fan of Ilford Delta 100 but FP4 also has many supporters
Ilford Pan F used to be my choice - very fine grain film capable of producing high quality large prints, but only 50 ISO, although that shouldn't be a problem in a studio environment. If you're doing your own processing, then if you develop in Acutol it gives a half stop increase in film speed - you can rate it at 75 ISO.
Neopan ACROS 100 is where it's at, this stuff can handle a lot of abuse and still produce beautiful tone and sharpness.
I have seen a canon scanner 300dpi for A4 at £130 on the net. good or bad??
You should be able to pick up one of these for around 130 quid or less. Great scanner for the dosh!
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For great skin tones I used to use Ilfords XP1 overexposed by a stop. Get the film processed only and then print from the negatives or get them scanned. Suspect XP2 will be very similar.