Cheap, good results. You can colour filter your prints if you want or leave them as pure black and white. Did I say cheap?

NEEDS a good lab guy, not a weakness in the film, but perhaps in peoples willingness to search for one.

My 2nd review here on this film as I wanted to add on some of my latter observations. A lot of people have panned it for the wrong reasons. You MUST use a lab with a quality operator (don''t let the machines fool you as to whether the lab will give you a good job) in order to get good quality results. There are professionals using this film to great success. Get some of the pro lighting books (I think their "Fashion" one) or Bambi Cantrells wedding book and you will see what a professional can do with this film. I shoot weddings with it and get CONSISTANTLY good results which please my customers and SELL pictures (8x10s). The "pros" who pan this film need to get a good lab and lose their C41/BW purity prejudice. That said, would I trust someone to shoot my wedding with it? Only if I saw what else they''d shot with it. It is temperamental. If they take it to a trash lab you will get dissappointing results. Only use this film on a pro shoot if you are confident in your lab. BTW I use a Fuji lab on Fuji paper. The Kodak places so far haven''t got it quite right....oh the irony! I won''t go over how cheap it is when you factor in print costs. See my other review. Lastly, someone said they wouldn''t shoot "vomit" with this film. Neither would I. Black and white wouldn''t capture it in the rich colour of Fuji 100 Superia...Egad! The childishness.

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Most Fuji and Kodak BW from 100-3200ASA

Great C-41 black & white facsimile. Best of all, it behaves like a true black & white film--fine grain & easy to push.

A little pricey. By design, you're vulnerable to bad processing by the local 1-hour lab.

Not a true black & white, but still a fine film for when you need black & white prints & need them developed fast.

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Ilford XP2

You can easily develop this black and white film at any 1-Hour photo lab or any place that develops color pictures. No hassle. It also has a nice grain.

One main weakness is that you have to give it to the photo processor to process. Some labs develop it better than others. When i developed my pictures most of the pictures had a slight sepia tone to them. This could be good or bad depending on your point of view. If you find the right processor you can get little to no discoloration.

A good film for when you need black and white pictures fast and cannot develop your own. If you don't have a darkroom or don't have time to develop this film is a good choice. The discoloration can be bad if you don't go to the right place. Not a bad film overall.

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Get B/W photos without having to do the process yourself, not fastidious.

Dodgey processing labs can produce wierd colour casts. I got one film back and all the prints were green, another they were all brown/sepia. A good processor will give good b/w though....just gotta find a good one.

A great, easy to use, forgiving film. The C-41 processing can cause problems though. I took some shots in tricky lighting and so bracketed 1 stop either way, and the three shots came out exactly the same because the machine had adapted. If you ask for them to be printed straight this shouldn' happen. I've used this film for sports, animals, portraits and landscapes and have been very happen with all the results. A great film not just to experiment with b/w but to get some quality, treasured images.

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C-41 processing, incredibly sharp for a 400-speed film, easy- printing sepiatone at a mini lab. Much easier to work with in the lab than XP2.

"Colors" are unpredictable when not exposed properly. Might be an ISO 320 film, anyway.

Kodak's T400CN is a film to have at arm's length for a variety of subject material. If you shoot photojournalism-style and need fast black and white turnaround, this is your film! I shoot a lot of pics at a 19th-century working agricultural museum, and the almost natural sepiatone rendition of Fuji color paper is phenomenal, as long as exposure is correct. I've made super-sharp 12x18 prints, shot with a Canon EF 200mm f/2.8 L, and the grain is almost invisible. If anyone wants to see some sepitone prints that I've done from this farm, e-mail me at: rjsmith@mby.auracom.com

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Never required any with this film.

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Ilford XP1/XP2

-get B+W prints within an hour
-grain quality is great at 5x7 or smaller
-price

-processing sometimes a hassel with some one hour places- they claim the film ruins there processing equipment

If you have a deadline for a black and white photograph and only have a couple of hours- this is the film to take. The grain quality is not too bad as I thought it would be. I also like the contrast and crisp appearance of the basic B+W tones.

Somewhat a surprise when they are processed. Depending on who process this film- you can get a blueish tone or that classic sepia tone look. At good photo labs, they can get it within the middle tone. I don't agree on the fact that under/over exposing the film will have a factor on the tone- as one claimed. I strongly beleive that it's the photo labs' processing equipment.

I think this film has a big market within the casual shooters who doesn't have the time to process regular B+W film. I like this film and would recomend it to anyone who wants a little change in their artistic creativity, but there's nothing like the real B+W film.

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Great in full auto mode, good grayscale in dayligth, everywhere c41 mini lab process. 400 speed flexibility.

Not to good at nigth, green/blue color on overexposures. Not found yet on 4/packs.

The film is great for portraits in full auto mode, at manual you should check on the meter no more than one stop overexposed or green color special defect will show. $5.00 per 24 exp./$6.00 per 36 exp. The price should be lower

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For Quick and Cheap Turnaround. Acceptable Sharpness and grain. Contrast....ehhh

Olive to blue undertone to prints, even with color correction.

Still much improvement needed in the undertone.
It's an ok film when you don't have access to a darkroom and you absolutely have to have it by tonights deadline. It's the lifesaver film you keep in your bag.

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eh, who cares. gotta do it yourself.

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Most of the B&W films

Sharp shots, can be processed anywhere and everywhere

Can give a sepia sheen to your photographs if you're not careful

Good, solid film that gives really nice, sharp shots, especially of people and buildings.

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A black and white film that can be processed in C-41 chemistry. Can be processed and printed at the minilab without waiting for their send-out B&W service.

Minilab processing may or may not be the greatest. Prints may have undertones-brownish or bluish.

A decent film. In an ideal world, I'd have sufficient time to shoot true B&W and process it myself, or at least have the patience to deal with the wait. With this film, I can get the images back quickly.

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