Film-Niko
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- Jan 22, 2009
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Niko
I have not used anything but 400 ASA film for years, except for testing purposes. I wouldn't know what to do with ASA 25. That film speed does not suit my type of photography.
Ralph,
nothing wrong with that. Different photographers, different styles of photography, different types of films with different characteristics. One of the dozens good reasons why using film is so flexible and so much fun: You can always change your sensor

I do 10-20% of my work with high speed films, rest with lower speed.
And I use the different looks and characteristics of different films to enhance and strengthen the expression of the photograph.
Sometimes an orthochromatic film is the best for my subject, sometimes an orthopanchromatic film (like Spur DSX) does the job best, in other situations a 'normal' panchromatic film is used, and some subjects looks best to my eye photographed with a superpanchromatic emulsion.
Horses for courses.
My photography would be very limited if I were only using Tri-X, TMY-2, Neopan 400 or HP5. I like different film looks for my photography.
And there are no orthochromatic, orthopanchromatic and only two superpanchromatic emulsions with ISO 400.