What is the best 35mm film you have ever used?

[Sirius Glass]

The best is situational because we still have so many choices available.

Best Black & White film: Tri-X and Plus-X
Best IR film: HIE, too bad it in no longer available
Best Color Print film: UC 400 for Red Rock in the Utah and Arizona, otherwise again it depends on the situation. Example: I would use Kodak NC or Kodak VC for portraits and weddings but for general photography there is a wide range of selections based on the subject, lighting, mood ...
Best Slide film: I have not shot slides in many years so I cannot say at this point.
Best Night Photography film: The Tungsten films for color

Steve

 

[Curt]

For color the film would have to be Kodachrome 25. I see for most it's hard to choose just one film.

 

[DWThomas]

From what I remember way back when I shot more 35mm, I liked Panatomic-X and Kodachrome 25. In more recent times I have shot Plus-X and the Ektars. If I were to pursue 35mm more heavily today I'd want to try some of the newer B&W stuff - Acros, PanF, etc. that I've been playing with in 120.

DaveT

 

[clayne]

Best as in easiest to handle, sharp, flexible for a wide-range of situations, and very high quality? Easy:

Kodak Tri-X.

Aesthetic preference? APX100. But the preference is not so strong that I would always choose it first. I like lots of films for different reasons.

 

[Cropline]

Kodak Tech Pan 25 and
Ektar 25

 

[brofkand]

Plus-X, Tri-X, Delta 3200, TMax 400. In that order.

Haven't done any serious color work in film yet.

 

[Dave Pritchard]

Kodak Technical Pan
Kodak Recording Film

 

[ricksplace]

I like em all. Fp4+ gets my vote for being pretty much bulletproof. The more I shoot Pan F the more I like it.
Ektar 100 gets my vote for colour.

 

[Guillaume Zuili]

Tri-X, Delta 3200, Plus-X.

 

[John Bragg]

Neopan 400. It has replaced Tri-X as my favorite...... Developed in Rodinal 1:50 it has more of a look of the older Tri-X formulation that I find very attractive. Crisp tight grain and lovely tones, especially good skin tones and creamy whites.

 

[Tom Kershaw]

Guillaume,

What do you like about Plus-X?

Tom

 

[garysamson]

Agfa APX25 and Kodachrome 25

 

[Guillaume Zuili]

Tom,
I should have written Verichrome which after Tri-x is/was an exceptional film.
My stock of Verichrome is slowly vanishing and so I'm trying to get a replicate with Plus-x.
It works. That's why I like it.
And I have 100 + boxes of Polaroid 665. I check them periodically, (exp 2003 to 2007) they work fine which is a very pleasant surprise.
I keep them for my double exposure series
That film is a unique beauty.
G.

 

[bdial]

Kodachrome 25
There are lots of runner-ups.

 

[Trey]

Px125 can do anything, and tmz fills in the gaps.

 

[Alan W]

Best ? Either of the Deltas,failing those anything else that gets the shot.

 

[lns]

Tri-X and Agfa APX100. By a mile.

But I can find something nice to say about any b&w film.

-Laura

 

[tony lockerbie]

Transparency....Kodachrome 25
Slow B&W.....Apx25
Med B&W.....Apx100
Fast B&W.....Tri-X
Colour neg....Fuji Reala
As someone else mentioned, they are all pretty good, just glad to be able to still get the stuff!

 

[keithwms]

b&w: panatomic x
colour: Astia 100F

 

[Ektagraphic]

KODACHROME

 

[MattKing]

KODACHROME

Kodachrome-X?

Kodachrome 64, and before that Kodachrome II - colour transparency

Portra 160NC, and before that Vericolour III - C-41 negative

Plus-X - B & W

Matt

 

[clayne]

I almost forgot: Neopan 1600.

 

[thomasw_]

TriX 400
Pan F+ 50
Adox CMS 20

Kodachrome 64
Porta 160 NC

---All for different reasons. But my go-to all-round favourite would be TriX 400. I think TriX is my favourite all-round film for most of the year in 120, too.

 

[kozesluk]

Delta 400 & Neopan 1600
both in DD-X

 

[StorminMatt]

I have to agree about Tri-X. It's one of those films that flat-out WORKS for so many different things. For instance, I tend to have B+W reversal processed by dr5 labs. And Tri-X makes one fine slide film. With MANY B+W films processed in dr5, contrast is VERY high (quite a bit higher than your average color chrome), and the result is a film that is rather finnicky and hard to shoot. But Tri-X is just right in this respect. In fact, with its contrast level and grain, dr5-processed Tri-X has the appearance of a B+W Kodachrome 200. In addition, the ISO is not so downrated that it becomes a less versatile film. Unlike Tmax 400 (which has its ISO downrated to ISO125 in dr5), Tri-X can be shot at a still respectable ISO320.