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Forum: Film SLRs and Compact Film Cameras
09-18-2016, 12:13 PM
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For portraiture with strobes, I'd shoot TMax 100 for B&W and Portra 160 for color. Both are sharp and have virtually no grain. Never did like Ektar for anything other than landscapes...for people the colors can be funky. I shot Ilford HP5+ in school, it was the only B&W the local camera store carried, but now that the store is gone and the internet is king I just order the Kodak films I'm more comfortable with...I like Tri-X for moody portraits outdoors (or for indoor low light situations pushed with no flash)...I like grainy pictures sometimes, what can I say? Tri-X or Plus-X (discontinued so hard to find) developed in D76 1:1 is sharp and has just enough grain to it for that old film look.
As others have said, developing B&W at home is super easy as it can be developed at room temps. Just need developer, water, and fixer as far as chems go, and a dark room (like an interior bathroom) or changing bag. Color isn't too hard but you have to keep the chems at a constant temp and the chems don't last very long once mixed.
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