Gotta agree with you about the Kodak film. Gave up on Kodak years ago after their film got more and more contrasty, not to mention expensive. Fuji has been the only way to go for me. I even use their 400 print film in my glamour studio work. I've had very nice enlargements to 20"x30" from 35mm negs with it. I've had labs tell me "You can't enlarge that size from a 35mm neg", and after I tell them that they are trying to convince the wrong person and to just do what I am paying them for, they get this surprised look on their faces at how good they turn out. As far as B&W goes, I just shoot the color film, scan a print, knock out the color in photoshop and print it on my Epson printer. Perfect photo quality and cheaper in the long run than having labs work on it.