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Ive started moving towards film recently and have access to a darkroom at my uni, so im looking into a couple of films to try out.
Im looking for a nice low iso one with fine grain about ISO 50
and a high iso one about 1600-3200
the only constraint is that i have to be able to dev them myself ie not C41

Can you recommend me some?
Thanks
Rob
 
Ilford Pan F and 3200 or Fuji neopan 1600.....semplice:)
 
Depends on the subject you will be shooting, iso 50 is mostly unusable unless you have a tripod, shooting mid summer or are shooting at 1.8. You will also have to be careful with the contrast with panf.
Another option would be Fp4+ which opens up a few more options.
Tmax 3200 or Neopan 1600 at the other end, although at 1600 I used to get better results by pushing Neopan 400 to 1600 and developing in tmax developer.
 
Thanks a lot

Well the 50 iso is mainly for landscapes and tripod work, the high iso is for street, gigs, low light and general gritty shots
Thanks for the suggestions an I will have a look for them :)
 
Interesting, I've been doing some research and I've found some rollei retro at a good price on agphotographic and I was curious if anyone had used it and what the results were like?
Thanks
 
I've got 2 rolls in the fridge which will be loaded this weekend, I'll let you know how they go. I've seen a few shots taken with it and it definitely has a kind of retro look.

Andy
 
nice :) well at 10 rolls for £18 on ag-photographic it would be stupid not to give it a chance :)
 
Some of the 100 ISO T-grain films are advertised just as fine-grained as the slower, classical cubic grain films. So don't just go by ISO as a measure of "fine grain".
 
Try Ilford Delta 3200, or Kodak TMAX 3200 these are good films for low light. Ilford FP125 is a great film with very fine grain, also the Kodak TMAX is great. :)
 
One of my favourite fine-grain films is Fuji Neopan Acros 100 but pulled 1 stop to 50 ISO and processed in perceptol. As for fast film, I generally just push HP5+ a couple of stops and soup it in ID-11 at stock. It normally comes out about the same degree of grain as (say) Neopan 1600, and saves you having money tied up in specialised film stock.
 
Nice let me know how it turns out jimmy. I've been looking into a few of these so I might get a couple of rolls of some of them and see whether I like them :)
 
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