Low Grain Film?

[martinsmith99]

What 35mm films have the lowest grain? I'm interested in B&W mainly but also a little colour.

I've used Kodak Gold 200 & 400 and Also Fuji Neopan 400 for B&W. Both were very high in grain. i've just bought some Portra 160 to try and I'm looking at getting some B&W to start home developing.

 

[raathistle]

In escence lower speed = less grain. Colour wise ektar100 is pretty good (colour negative) or Fuji provia (colour slide). Black and White try ilford delta 100, or if you want to try some classic film adox 25 or 50 is nice, but needs careful deveopment.

Are you judging the grain by scans? If so who is doing the scanning?

Chris

 

[excalibur2]

Ilford FP4 is a good start for B/W........I've got about 100' of it from about 30 years ago, anyway used a bit recently to test a camera lens and it's still ok.
All the scratches on this blow up were caused by me forgetting how to load the film into a cassette from the Watson loader.

http://i304.photobucket.com/albums/nn172/chakrata/70-210macro-1.jpg

 

[martinsmith99]

In escence lower speed = less grain. Colour wise ektar100 is pretty good (colour negative) or Fuji provia (colour slide). Black and White try ilford delta 100, or if you want to try some classic film adox 25 or 50 is nice, but needs careful deveopment.

Are you judging the grain by scans? If so who is doing the scanning?

Chris

Yes, I am judging by scans. These are done both by myself and a lab and the results are identical.

 

[Steve Smith]

For black and white, try Ilford PAN F. ISO 50.


Steve.

 

[Kev M]

Depending on what ISO you need for whatever you're shooting my personal favourite for ISO100 is Fuji Acros. The grain is fine enough to give me trouble when printing making sure the enlarger is focused properly.

 

[martinsmith99]

Thanks for the responses. This gives me a few options.

 

[joxby]

Rollei pan 25 is smooth as slug snot too, but as with everything you have to soup it for fine grain.
Also, I'm interested to hear a bit more about "clittle colour".......sounds fab..

 

[martinsmith99]

Rollei pan 25 is smooth as slug snot too, but as with everything you have to soup it for fine grain.
Also, I'm interested to hear a bit more about "clittle colour".......sounds fab..

Oops!

 

[POAH]

adox/efke CHS 25 or CMS 20 which you can buy from retro photographic

 

[Fajitas]

I'd have to give a +1 to the Rollei Pan 25 - It's a lovely film.

You can buy it cheaper from the Maco factory/website itself in Germany.