Originally posted by KeithM2 but I want to see what normal film would look like.
If you want some good example of what film look like, go to this thread :
https://www.pentaxforums.com/forums/pentax-film-slr-discussion/53503-cool-let...ilm-shots.html.
Originally posted by KeithM2 how much I should be expecting to pay for them?
For film only : i pay between 3€ and 8€ depending on the film. Maybe be the same amount in $ for you i guess.
For me, B&W is the cheapest, then color, then slide. The higher iso you want the more expensive it is.
However, you can buy some 400 iso film, underexpose it for 2 stops, and ask for processing like a 1600 iso film (if the lab allow it, of course.)
processing only cost me around 4€, and process + print is 10€ per roll.
personnaly i prefer process only, then i scan them. I shoot sports in burst from time to time, so i want only one pics or two to be printed out of 5 or 10.
Originally posted by KeithM2 what are some examples of decent films
Well, nowadays, almost all film are good for day to day (except the Kodak Gold color film : cheap, with some random result. but really cheap
).
For B&W : Ilford HP5 or Delta 400, Kodak Tmax or Tri-X, Fuji Neopan, etc ... they are all really good. They all have their own "personality" some are grainier, some are finest, some render beautiful dark, some render perfectly the highlights, etc ...
The best thing to do is grab a roll of each, and try
For Color, i'm still discovering it
i tried Fuji Superia 200 and the result is very grainy sometimes, and sometimes they are so silky, i don't get why. The color are so saturated : sky are blue. A blue you only see in hot summer day usually.
For the rest : remember low iso : less grain, better rendering in colors, higher dynamic range. Expose for shadow (you can almost always recover some highlights, but it's harder to get anything if you didn't expose enought dark area.)