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chris.kenward{at}fanciful.org at chris.kenward{at}fanciful.org wrote:

> -> I'm trying to resurrect my old Olympus OM1.
> -> Didn't get any usage for years - but it seems
> -> to be loosening up again.
>
> I don't know that one...
>
> Do you (or anyone else) have any ideas about what makes a good black and
> white photo? I am seriously thinking about buying some mono film and
> putting my Olympus 35mm camera to work again. Don't know which is the best
> film to buy and need tips on what to do differently to get mono to look as
> good as colour.

Over the past two decades, I rarely shot B&W even when it was called for.
Superb prints can be made on panchromatic papers, complete with B&W
filtering after the fact. A red filter works the same under the enlarger as
it does in the field.

That said, I have shot a bit of Ilford XP-2 and consider it a highly
superior film.  The nice thing, is that it is chromogenic. It uses the same
technology as colour negative film. In fact, any one-hour lab can process
it, since it requires the C-41 process. It has a very long scale and can be
used at everything from about ISO50 to ISO1600. It is nominally ISO400.

However, I would much rather shoot colour negs and print to B&W. It is far
simpler to remove colour than to add it. With colour negative, you have the
option of either. I have had many B&W off colour shots in magazines, and a
number of astute clients who insisted on jobs being shot this way. With
colour negs, they had the choice of going for separations directly off the
negative, display prints in either colour or B&W and superbly balanced
transparencies, since again colour balancing can be done in the lab.

larry!
ICQ 76620504
http://www.larry-bolch.com/

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