Film Poll for Camera 8 Participants

What Film for Camera 8?

  • Tri-X

    Votes: 11 42.3%

  • Ektar 100

    Votes: 4 15.4%

  • Portra 400VC or other 400 Speed Color

    Votes: 11 42.3%
  • Total voters
    26
  • Poll closed .

Shawn Rahman

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This poll is intended to Camera 8 participants only. If you would like to participate in Camera 8, there may still be a few open spots, so please read below.

Hey All:

Sile asked me to survey the participants in Camera 8 for film preferences among these three:

1) Tri-X
2) Ektar 100
3) or a 400 Speed Color film - perhaps Portra 400VC.

I will purchase two rolls of the winning film early next week from B&H, and send one Sile for loading into the Canon. I will load the Nikon. Hopefully these cameras can be rolling very shortly!

I believe there are still some open spots for these cameras, so please get a hold of Sile through the official Camera 8 thread titled "Dare I say...Camera 8?".
 
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Before answering, do we have a theme for the camera(s)? If it's to be Tri-X, what EI & developer are we using?

Personally I'd prefer Pan-F, KB-25 or RVP50, though I don't really know the capabilities of the chosen cameras and they all require fairly accurate metering.

Maybe some Portra would be a good all-'round choice that's hard to get wrong.
 

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Thanks for this Shawn! I voted portra.. but needless to say I'd vote for pen and paper if I thought it would get home safe and sound!
 
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Hey all - I just realized what a flawed poll this is!! It should have been two choices: 1) B&W 2) Color.

I am such a dork for splitting the color vote!

But hey - let's see what pans out by next week. Then off to B&H I go to buy the winning film.
 

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opps i voted without signing on, sorry I just instinctively vote on any poll with out reading
 

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Newt_on_Swings said:
opps i voted without signing on, sorry I just instinctively vote on any poll with out reading
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For the Canadians here:

Are you an NDP supporter from Quebec?
 

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Or perhaps it could have been by camera? Although without the final list for each one that wouldn't really work.

(Nothing like adding more confusion to the mix!)
 

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b&w is in the lead!

Shawn Rahman said:
Hey all - I just realized what a flawed poll this is!! It should have been two choices: 1) B&W 2) Color.

I am such a dork for splitting the color vote!

But hey - let's see what pans out by next week. Then off to B&H I go to buy the winning film.
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I voted for Tri-X because it was the only b&w option. Optimally, TMY or FP4 would be my choice.

Chris
 

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TX!
 
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Leave it to us baffoons to come to an apparent tie on film choice. The tiebreaker goes like this: Sile chose Portra, so that pretty much decides it, wouldn't ya' say?
 
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Looking forward to trying some Portra anyway!
 

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Simplicius said:
Missed the poll but Portra 400 is grand
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Excellent choice... the tie was inevitable.. anything straight forward with regards to the travelling cameras would just be wrong!
 

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Síle said:
Excellent choice... the tie was inevitable.. anything straight forward with regards to the travelling cameras would just be wrong!
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Go on Sile give them hell!
 

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Chickens everywhere are trembling.....
 
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