Are you guys shooting mainly b/w with film?

I have been thinking about this. That is shooting film and focus mostly with b/w film and leave color for digital.

 

Color film is still daylight balanced like digital and with the cost involved esp color slide film and then the pro lab to develop E6. I will however regard drum scanning the same between b/w and color film and I don't have facilities for wet printing b/w film.

 

 

Love to hear your views.

Yes, I mostly do black and white.

 

I might to one roll of color film a year, for special occasions.

 

Last year we went to NZ, and I took along one roll of Superia 200. It isn't so expensive to process.

 

Sometimes it is the first roll I run though a camera, and don't even know how well it will work.

 

I now have a Canon Pellix, with the mirror not quite as clean as new. I put one roll through it

though haven't gotten around to developing it.

 

I have a 25 foot roll of Portra 160 in 70mm, that I might get around to spooling for 116.

 

Otherwise, other than 35mm, most cameras get black and white film. I have some rolls of VP116

and even a roll of VP122. An assortment of 120 film, too.

I shoot almost exclusive B&W-films in the last years, but think about loading one 35mm-camera with a roll of Fuji Reala (have squirreled about 30 rolls of my favorite color-negative-film in the freezer) to see if "I can see in color too" ;-)

I only shoot colour film. In my opinion, the only reason to shoot black & white is if you enjoy the processing bit as well. For me, I enjoy taking photos, and seeing the result; the processing bit in the middle doesn't interest me.

 

I pay for processing and scanning at the same time. Yes it's expensive, but I don't shoot like a machine gun so it's not so expensive that I have to give up my hobby.

 

I shoot Portra 160 with a Rolleiflex, and Provia 400X (which I stocked up on before it was discontinued) with a Noblex 135.

 

I enjoy it a lot.

I use both for their respective strengths.

 

I shoot a lot of B&W, but still love Velvia.

I have film in 4 different cameras right now. One has B&W and 3 have color. I recently bought a box of expired film at a garage sale for $10. It belonged to a professor that taught poetry and film at a local college. He died about 10 years ago. It has Super 8 and 16mm film movie along with a bunch of 35mm still film and a few rolls of 120. I also bought a 10 pack of expired color fuji film awhile back and still have 5 or 6 rolls left. I sold the 16mm film on eBay and that has more than covered the cost of everything else.

 

It's been my intention to do mostly B&W since I have the chemistry readily available but I have all this color film that basically cost me nothing. There's some E6 in there and I haven't tried processing that on my own yet so that will be fun. Once I work my way through what I have in the fridge, I may not do much more color except for medium format. I may sell a couple of the cameras too. I say that but then I'll run into somebody who's trying to unload some color film and I'll be back to where I am now.

I still shoot a fair amount of color film, but will admit that the "cleanness" of digital is seductive. OTOH, I do shoot 120 B/W and keep promising myself to get the Sinar out of its drawer and shoot some 4x5 B/W. It is as much about process, IMO, as it is about some non-existent property like "soul". I prefer my film cameras to my digital ones, although the X-E1 does a good imitation of a Leica or Contax.

I enjoy using the darkroom to print and prefer looking at B&W over color, so most of my film use is B&W and I use digital for color. Occasionally I'll convert a digital shot to B&W.

When I had darkrooms rigged up: "yes". Lifetime in total probably too. I see little sense in paying a lot more for smaller color prints from a 6x6 camera. I'm no big fan of color as a hobby (even in digital!) but think if you give everything out of house, B&W isn't affordable, mass printed stuff aside but for that you can convert color too.

I shoot color and scan with a Coolscan IV. Then I can print it at a CVS or Walgreens.

You mean they've got colour film these days?

For me it's black & white most of the time. 4 bulk loaders for 35 that contain: Tri-X, Eastman 5222, Ilford FP4+, and Panatomic-X (expired 1981). For 120 I have two Pro-paks of Plus-X in storage and one of Tri-X. A few singles of each at room temperature. Also a few rolls of expired APX 100. Half a box of 4x5 Super XX from the mid-80's. Don't do much color since I have to send it out. When I shoot color it's usually Fuji Superia 200.

When the local camera store gave up, I bought a lot of D76 mix, fixer, etc. But since I've had some problems, I haven't actually got out to shoot much B&W. I have done some C41 materials, but sent them off to Dwaynes for processing only.

My latest project, in any case, when I get to it, is a couple of early digital cameras.

 

My favorite B&W actually is Ilford Super XP2, a C41 chromogenic film, but it's too inconvenient under present circumstances.

Mostly Black and White. I develop the film myself and print it in my darkroom.

 

When I shoot color, it is color negative film that I have developed only. I scan it on my Coolscan V, post process in Photoshop CS5, and upload to Costco for printing.

I shoot both, lately more color than black and white. I process my own C-41 and enjoy it. Color film is a new language for me, since I have started a few months ago shooting and developing it. I need to learn the language to communicate my ideas.

 

Black and white for me is a familiar language, having been practicing it for 40 years. Each media reinforces and strengthens the other for me.

 

Color materials: Ektar, and Portra 160/400/800 in 35mm, 120 and 4x5

Black and white materials: TMX, TMY and TXP in the same sizes as above

I shoot very little color film but all film for black and white since I can see the entire process through without the use of computers. I still love the look of mellow contrast color films in medium format but once I am out, I don't think I will be buying anymore.

 

So yeah, color is digital for me.

I shoot mostly color negative film and develop and print it in my darkroom. All formats, but mostly 120. I do some b&w occasionally, all 4x5. No digital.

B&W is fun and some subject matter lends itself well to it, but as the world has color, that is what I prefer and am learning to master both the shooting and darkroom aspects of it.

I just shoot film in B/W. Right now i shoot Acros and Delta 100 in 120 format. I do not want to also develop color. However i shoot color with my cell phone.

Hello everyone. Raymond, here the photography is 99.99% b/w thru my collection of medium format CMC folding cameras from the 1950's (another story that is ! ) & several FSU Fed 35mm cameras. Development is done at the kitchen sink with my "tiddy" Igloo cooler system & scanning with an Epson V600 yields excellent files for digital printing, presently thru Costco, but the bucket list for a "Very Good" b/w printer is on track for 2018. All this is an excellent, and economical, way for me to deplete my retirement income! Aloha, Bill

Spend much time in Hawaii and photography won't be the only thing depleting you're retirement income. ;)

At 74, I am pacing myself ! Aloha, Bill

Only B&W film, B&W for the result (I see it like drawing) and for the fun of translating color into shades of grey, ..and it's easy to process

Fortunately for those of us who continue to use black & white there are some more economical sources of film if Kodak and Ilford are too expensive. I'm not at that point yet, but am testing lower priced films. Ilford FP4+ bulk is still cheap enough to save money over individual rolls, but Tri-X is not. I've tested the Kentmere 100 and find it a very good film and at around 40 USD, a good value. Others in the forum have achieved fine results with Arista films and Ultrafine films as well.