are film cameras a dead issue ?

Cool, if I did get a filter though I'd probably only get one as they are rather pricey. so maybe I should start a flame war about "which b&w film is the best"

Ed Leys said:

GothtinPowers said:

What would be cool would be photoshop plug-ins which mimic the
colour responses of various black and white films., so you could
just take a colour photo, and then choose the "Tmax 100" filter and
click, it's b&w.

So who's going to make this?

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Gothtin,

I suspect this is what you're looking for (I'll try to jump you
right to the film types, but I bet you can navigate from there just
fine...):
http://www.silveroxide.com/#Film

Yes, they even work.

My best,

Ed

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GothtinPowers said:

Cool, if I did get a filter though I'd probably only get one as
they are rather pricey. so maybe I should start a flame war about
"which b&w film is the best"

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Tmax 100 developed in Rodinal 1+50
Tmax 400 developed in Tmax 1+7
Tri-X developed in Xtol 1+2

Those are my favorites

the developer used is important! It determines the character of the film to a considerable degree.

tmax 100, for example, is grainy in Tmax developer and not very sharp, while in Xtol it's sharper and in Rodinal sharpest. In Rodinal it has higher midtone contrast than in Xtol, which i like.
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Chris Crawford

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For me they won't replace film unless two things are accomplished;

DSLR prices drop to equivilent film body prices (that won't happen for a while I think)

and/or

consumer non-DSLR cameras improve in their high ISO signal/noise ratio.

For now, film still has the advantage for me (though film isn't cheap unfortunately).

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Michael King
Melbourne, Australia
http://mk.fpic.co.uk
1 Canon digital camera, 1 Nikon camera + film