Ilford HP5 vs!

[MattKing]

It can't be cheaper unless there is something different (inferior) about it. Otherwise, why make HP5+?

Films aren't monolithic. Different films have different characteristics, and the various characteristics have different levels of significance for different users in differing usages.
Otherwise why make Hp5+ and Delta 400 and Kentmere 400?
Or for that matter, T-Max 400 and Tri-X 400?
Kentmere 400 is superior to HP5+ if its relative economy and less effective anti-halation and excellent availability better meet someone's needs.

 

[thinkbrown]

Films aren't monolithic. Different films have different characteristics, and the various characteristics have different levels of significance for different users in differing usages.
Otherwise why make Hp5+ and Delta 400 and Kentmere 400?
Or for that matter, T-Max 400 and Tri-X 400?
Kentmere 400 is superior to HP5+ if its relative economy and less effective anti-halation and excellent availability better meet someone's needs.

A lot of these arguments rapidly distill into "well this company makes one expensive blue paint, clearly it's better than the cheaper blue paint" while completely ignoring that you and I might like entirely different blues. At the end of the day these are all tools for making art and preference is like 90% of it.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Very true, but some people just can't see it that way.