First B&W film?

film_guy · Feb 5, 2008

Kodak BW400CN was my first pseudo B&W film. My first real B&W was Kodak Tmax 400.

Confusion Circle · Feb 5, 2008

Kodak Tech Pan/Tri-X.

jlehmus · Feb 5, 2008

Tmax 100 in 1990 I think

Chazzy · Feb 5, 2008

Verichrome Pan in 620 and other obsolete formats used by my parents' box cameras. I suppose that dates me.

Ian Grant · Feb 5, 2008

Verichrome Pan back in the good old days Then FP3 & HP3

Ian

Doubrovsky · Feb 5, 2008

Mine is exotic - Svema 65.

aldevo · Feb 5, 2008

The first B&W films I used were Ilford XP2 Super and Kodak BW400 CN back in the early 90s. I switched over to non-C41 films about 5 or 6 years ago.

Where the non-C41 films are concerned, my first film was the 5063-emulsion Tri-X.

Today, Tri-X probably still accounts for 75% of my film usage.

gr82bart · Feb 5, 2008

First film I ever used was Kodachrome 64 - technically it's a very fancy b&w film, no? LOL The first real b&w film I used was what ever was bulked in the highschool cannisters - I think it was FP4 or Tri-X. Don't remember.

Regards, Art.

Jim Jones · Feb 5, 2008

BobNewYork said:
Verichrome Pan in a Kodak Brownie 127. I notice several other Verichrome initiates. See you at the senior centre chaps

Verichrome 116 Orthochromatic in a No. 2A Folding Pocket Brownie Camera, Model A, in the late 1940s. Just a few years later it was Super=XX Panchromatic film, ASA 100, and Daylight Kodachrome, ASA 10, in a Mercury II with an f/2.7 lens and 1/1000 focal plane shutter. Wow! what blazing speed! Some of those Kodachromes still look good, too.

*Manda* · Feb 6, 2008

Hello, I am currently new to the black and white film, I am taking my first photography class with developing. I have been shooting for 2yrs expect color process. So, this evening I go out to shoot my first project, I had a roll of color left, that I finished up, and went to put in the tmax 400 b&w, and the the door wouldn't shut, then I finally got it closed and then I run into another problem my data panel is blank. So, that was great, I only had one roll with me cause that is what the project called for. I know my camara works great, never had any problems prior, I have a minolta maxxium5. Could it have been the film, or what? Thanks!

aparat · Feb 6, 2008

Fotopan HL

My first film was Fotopan HL. I was seven years old - thirty years ago. I got a Smena 8m camera for my birthday along with some Fotopan HL film. I still have the negatives.
aparat

Sparky · Feb 6, 2008

a bit embarrassing (due to age) but mine was panatomic-x... (ACK!! - I'm 42)

BobNewYork · Feb 6, 2008

Sparky: Nothing personal, but you'll get no sympathy from me!! Not at MY age you won't!!

Samuel Hotton · Feb 6, 2008

I suspect Verichrome, probably in 127 size. Then Plus-x 135. So very long ago.

Sam H.

panchro-press · Feb 6, 2008

Mine was 31/4X41/4 Panchro-Press or Super XX.

Thanasis · Feb 6, 2008

Tri-X.

Murray Kelly · Feb 7, 2008

Verichrome (ortho) about 1948

Tom Reardon · Feb 7, 2008

Verichrome Pan

pesphoto · Feb 7, 2008

My first was the best......TriX

ADOX Fotoimpex · Feb 7, 2008

First Film used

NP 22.

Mirko

analogfotog · Feb 7, 2008

My first film was in an old 620 Brownie that my parents used to photograph me when I was a baby. I don't remember the model, and it is long gone (wait...my sister may have it stashed in a closet, in her house in Barrie, Ontario; I must ask). I don't recall the brand of film for sure, but I think it may have been Kodak Verichrome Pan film, and it would have been about 1962.

When I received my first real camera, at Christmas 1968, a Practika Nova (also long gone), my first film was Kodacolor-X, 20-exposures. My first B&W film was Tri-X pan, also 20-exposures.

mawz · Feb 7, 2008

IIRC it was BW400CN, about 5 years ago. I'd been shooting colour since the late 80's though. First real B&W(and second B&W roll) was HP5+, with Tri-X following a couple rolls later.

Anscojohn · Feb 7, 2008

Super XX

Paul Verizzo · Feb 7, 2008

Verichrome Pan in a Brownie

My first camera, can't remember what format. 127? Something else long gone?

Then my dad developed and printed it in his darkroom, he was a pro.

mamiyaflex · Feb 8, 2008

1964 Ansco All Weather Pan in 127. It came in a kit with a bottle of Hyfinol L developer and short stop and fixer and a contact printer for 127 sized negatives.

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