Forum: Photography


Subject: I've landed in B&W hell

Rork1973 opened this issue on Jan 09, 2002 ยท 14 posts


Rork1973 posted Wed, 09 January 2002 at 6:59 PM

What I like most in b&w shooting is sharp, fine grain film with a lot of contrast....but not with it's lightest and darkest spots too exhaggerated like I've seen on both film. Don't laugh :) I know 3200 isn't sharp, fine grain film, but I tried it before in low light conditions and I didn't really liked the results (too dark, whites are too grey-ish, etc) so I just wanted to try it again...so the 3200 isn't something I was expecting great sharp shots with :) Well, I had the same problem with the 400 film (not the T400CN, but just kodak's normal consumer 400 film). Anyway, like I said, I like sharp and contrasty stuff....but not too much that you get more a black & white shot without much grey's in between if you know what I mean. I saw a shot with Tmax 100 somewhere, either in a magazine or on photo.net, and it looked exactly like I wanted it. But 100 would be a bit slow.... Any suggestions ? :) Btw, thanks for all the great info!