Re: What the f**k happened?
Try Kodak's Tmax 100 or Ilford Delta 100. Acros 100 from Fuji is great stuff too, and IMO, a great deal for the price!
I like all 3, but since I shoot primarily 8x10 these days, Delta 100(and FP4+) is the easiest to get in that size for me(I order from B+H online).
What format are you looking for btw, sheet or roll film? B/C all the aforementioned emulsions are available in 35mm-->4x5 quite easily.
Developers: same old same old. HC110 is still considered one of the "universal" developers, heck, some people use instant coffee(read up on it here and over on APUG), I prefer D-76 if I don't use pyro. Color I farm out to a few labs I've grown accustomed to since color chemistry is pretty much "nil" from an amateur POV...
-Dan
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Welcome to the forum! (Maybe you should have used Rip Van Winkle for a pen name ;))
The current grain winner, now that TechPan is gone, is Fuji Acros 100. This is really an outstanding film, and can be developed in any number of developers. It is available in all format sizes up to 8x10, but you'll have to order that from Japan. It has excellent reciprocity characteristics for long exposures, and the grain is almost as good as TechPan, and better than anything else on the market.
So welcome back to the joys of film!
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Daniel and Brian, thank you very much for your responses. After writing my opening post I hit B&H's website and drew up a matrix of what ISOs I like which are available in my favorite formats; 120 and 4x5. I am suspect that some emulsions may be available in my favorite formats even though B&H doesn't list them. AS far as color chemistry; the two nearby labs I used to take my roll film to on occasion no longer do film. In fact the guy who answered the phone at the successor to Putnam Imaging Center got quite snotty with me when I inquired about having color film processed. It seems as if he never heard of chemistry based photography. That's a huge change from the last time I was at that lab almost ten years ago.
So from your responses and my brief checking over at B&H it looks like I am still in luck although I will have a mix of different colored boxes in the film drawer of my refrigerator.
I do feel like I have awakened from a long slumber into a radically changed world.
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As you know, Tech Pan was high contrast document film that was tamed by special developers (Technidol, Pota) for pictorial use. You can get a similar combo from Freestyle Photographic, the Adox CMS 20 with a specialized developer, Adotech/Adotech II, see: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/120120...ize?cat_id=403 for 120 and http://www.freestylephoto.biz/12036-...ure?cat_id=402 for 35mm. No sheet film CMS 20 is available right now, but Fotoimpex in Germany (the company that now owns the Adox name and cooperates with Freestyle) is just gearing up a cutting machine for sheet film and will again bring the CMS 20 out in sheet film next year: https://www.facebook.com/pages/FOTOIMPEX/143565537312.
In 35mm and 120, you can also get from Freestyle the Rollei/Maco ATP 1.1 (stands for Advanced Technical Pan), also with a special developer, Rollei ATP-DC: http://www.freestylephoto.biz/422201...oll?cat_id=402 and http://www.freestylephoto.biz/422210...xed?cat_id=403. There is no sheet film equivalent. To my knowledge, the CMS20 and the ATP1.1 emulsions are made by Agfa-Gevaert in Mortsel, Belgium, for other purposes, and both developers were developed and are made by the SPUR company in Germany.
One big difference is that the Adox' CMS20 sensitization is orthopanchromatic, i.e. with a slightly reduced sensitivity in the red, whereas the Kodak TP as well as the Rollei ATP have extended red sensitivity compared to regular panchromatic film.
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Haven't read the entire message but in answer to the question in the header, digital happened.
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Agree with Acros 100 for 4x5, but for 120 you can still buy Ilford's Pan F+, the best B&W film ever made, IMHO. Also Rodinal (in other names) can still be obtained.
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Again thank you for your responses. I am so glad I found this forum. Until last night I thought B&H was the be-all-end-all of photographic supply, mostly because I can stop by the store after work and take a look at stuff in the used department or other departments. It is a shame that Kodak did not keep up with the development of the digital camera which they themselves invented. In response Kodak has been gradually pulling the plug on those of us who still prefer film only driving us to other brands.
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Black Lightning
Again thank you for your responses. I am so glad I found this forum. Until last night I thought B&H was the be-all-end-all of photographic supply, mostly because I can stop by the store after work and take a look at stuff in the used department or other departments. It is a shame that Kodak did not keep up with the development of the digital camera which they themselves invented. In response Kodak has been gradually pulling the plug on those of us who still prefer film only driving us to other brands.
If more of us were buying Kodak film products in reasonable amounts, the company would not be pulling the plug on film. Kodak is not going to survive on hobbyists purchasing one or two boxes of 4x5 film a year.
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