Getting started with film - Our budget 35mm picks
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It has to be the unpredictable nature of film, you never quite know how the shots are going to turn out until you've developed them. There’s nothing more exciting than pulling negs out of the tank and holding them up to the light to see what you’ve got
Read MoreKodak’s T-Max isn’t one of those films that you see constantly thrust into the limelight. It’s elder cousin Tri-X 400 and Ilford’s HP5+ seem to dominate the 400-speed black and white space and rightly so. Tri-X rests on its ability to adapt to nearly any situation and both pushes and pulls, then you have HP5+ with its aesthetically pleasing grain structure and untouchable ability to push while keeping contrast under control.
Read MoreFilm photography can be costly for the casual photographer who only shoots every now and then, or the photographer who never leaves the house without a film camera in hand.
More fortunate photographers get to enjoy film stocks of higher quality, and the rest
have to make do with consumer-grade film stocks.