Thanks for the comments..! :-) Dear Fire, I never had the chance to compare the b/w films of Ilford with other b/w films (with Kodak's, for example). Thus, the b/w films of Ilford are the best b/w films that I know..!! :-))) I like to work with HP5+ better than FP4+ because I really tend to like obvious grain in photographic prints. Still, we (me and my friends at the photo club that I was once attending) used to say that one needs to carry to cameras along; one loaded with FP4+, and one with HP5+... :-)