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What kind of film do you use in your "take everywhere" camera

If you count "on my person," my only "take everywhere camera" is my phone.

However, my "car camera" is still a Nikon Pronea S, so I use whatever APS film I still have in my freezer.
 
benveniste said:
If you count "on my person," my only "take everywhere camera" is my phone.

However, my "car camera" is still a Nikon Pronea S, so I use whatever APS film I still have in my freezer.
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You reminded me about my Minolta that I keep in the trunk and the one roll of "whatever" film (usually Eastman Double-X but I just loaded my last roll so I'm switching to HP5+ since kodak killed that too...),
 

Same here! Except it only costs me £4.50 for development and scanning with Snaps Photo Services.
 
Panatomic X. I don't have to worry about Kodak killing it, it's already dead! It's almost as good at 125 as it is at 32.

--nosmok
 
Tri-X or HP5+ (love them both), always rated at EI200, and loaded into my M4 body (always equipped with a late 50mm Summicron.
 
In all formats it used to be FP4, then from 1986 until it was discontinued (in 120 & 5x4) it was AP/APx100, then I switched to Tmax 100. Because of poor availability of Kodak B&W films (while outside the UK/EU) I switched to Delta 100. All excellent films.

Ian
 
Kodak Tri-X 400 at box speed.
 
I use Ilford HP5+ at box speed and never keep a camera in the glove compartment! Even up here in Canada during the summer it gets very hot in there; must get even hotter in Florida.
 
Yes, glove boxes are a no no for cameras every where.
 
400 speed b&w film. Although I never liked the look of 400 speed film in 135 format it's what works.
 
T-Max 400, because I can shoot it at anywhere between an EI of 200 and 800, on the same roll, and get very usable results.
 
macfred said:
Ilford XP2 Super ...
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Also a good choice, if you either have a lab do your developing, or do your own C41 developing yourself.
 
If I can set the ISO Tmax 400 pushed to 800, if a point and shoot, Foma 400 or Ultrafine 400 color Kodacolor 200 and 400.
 
I understand "take everywhere " to mean always with you. If so, my always in my pocket camera is a Minox or Minolta 16 with Delta 100. My "usually with me camera" is an xa or Rollei 35 with hp5. If I carry my bag - a rangefinder or slur with Delta 100. In fact, most of my still photography is with Delta 100.
 

MattKing said:
T-Max 400, because I can shoot it at anywhere between an EI of 200 and 800, on the same roll, and get very usable results.
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Matt I guess reading is more tiring than writing (Wink)

As for my take everywhere camera: the smallest the format, the lower the ISO
 
Kodak Tmax400 in a Mamiya6
 
I usually go with tri-x at box speed during the summer and 1600 in winter times (gets dark in sweden). I tried hp5 but doesn't really like the way it prints compared to tri-x.

Since i got my darkroom my film expenses gotten a bit too high so im gonna give fomapan a try and see how it looks. 3,20 € a roll is hard to beat
 
Ilford HP5 Plus at the I.S.O 400 box speed.
 
LAG said:
Matt I guess reading is more tiring than writing (Wink)
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Usually, before I post on three year old "what do you do?" type threads, I check to make sure I haven't already posted before I post to them. Must have missed that for this one .
 
I usually have my outdoor camera loaded with Velvia 50, my indoor camera with Portra 800.
 
drgoose said:
...which film do you guys carry in your every day camera...
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In the pre-Kodak bankruptcy days and the pre-digital days when I carried an every day film camera, I shot Kodak Tri-X.

Today, I shoot Ilford HP5 and Arista EDU 400 in 35mm and 120 roll film sizes.
 
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Same here, Tri-X. The camera depends on the mood, though: Rolleiflex, SWC or a 35mm rangefinder of some sort.
 
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