i am dusting off my 5x7 after several years, and hope to be shooting again soon. The film i used in the past was a kodak product, and availability reasons dict ate a change of material. i plan to use either either hp4+ or bergger for my fut ure work, processed with acutol or similar developer. i am looking for a painful ly sharp result. i dont want to trim down 8x10 tech pan (or give money to kodak for that matter). i may well buy a box of each and "try it!" but i also value y our insight and input based on hands-on experience with these products. subject matter will predominately be detail-rich machinery (trains, trucks, etc) so i am not concerned with true-to-life skintones or cloud/sky renditions as a performa nce criteria. on the other hand, there may not be enough difference between the two to films to matter in this case. thanks in advance for your input.
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