Pete,
www.warehouseexpress.com/uk? is pretty good, and www.Photoglossy.com is good for film.
If you are using jessops film (which is given free when you get a film developed) is ok but you should try slide film.
A slide is the image, you can stick it on a ligth box and that is what you get. A negative needs further developing to get a picturem that is either printing it or scanning it. This obviously addsa another elemnt in the chain which looses image quality.
I use fuji film as I like the colours and pfrefer it over kodachrome.
Velvia is very slow fine grain high quality very saturated film, is now available in iso 100 although i havent tried the 100 yet, the 50 is awsome and a favourite of landscape photographers.
Provia is very good fine grain film a bit more neutral than velvia and very usable, I have nearly finished my first roll of provia 400 but have used 100 for quite some time and it is very good film.
I have used kadachrome and ektachrome in the past and it is very good but prefer fuji.
Also used to use Sensia in the past, the bonus being the film price includes processing, you just popo it into the envelope it comes with and post it off.
B&W i have used lots, mainly ilford and kodak. Currently using hp5 and i develop them myself, rerady for scanning...soon 8)
I am experimenting with pushing film at the moment, and trying to bleach out backgrounds with overexposure. Pushing allows you rate a film higher than it is ie a iso 100 film is rated at 800 by changing the setting on your camera. You can then use higher shutterspeeds than usual for a given aperture because the camera thinks you are using higher sensitivity film. Of course you are not but when you process the film you leave it in the developer for longer to get the correct exposure. The offshoot of this is grain is increased but on b&w this can look very nice. If you develop your own film this is easy to do. if you use slide film and take it to a lab they will up rate it when they process but charge more and you need to tell them you pushed it.
Best advice - epxeriment and be prepared for lots of average/unusable pictures...the good ones will off set this
www.warehouseexpress.com/uk? is pretty good, and www.Photoglossy.com is good for film.
If you are using jessops film (which is given free when you get a film developed) is ok but you should try slide film.
A slide is the image, you can stick it on a ligth box and that is what you get. A negative needs further developing to get a picturem that is either printing it or scanning it. This obviously addsa another elemnt in the chain which looses image quality.
I use fuji film as I like the colours and pfrefer it over kodachrome.
Velvia is very slow fine grain high quality very saturated film, is now available in iso 100 although i havent tried the 100 yet, the 50 is awsome and a favourite of landscape photographers.
Provia is very good fine grain film a bit more neutral than velvia and very usable, I have nearly finished my first roll of provia 400 but have used 100 for quite some time and it is very good film.
I have used kadachrome and ektachrome in the past and it is very good but prefer fuji.
Also used to use Sensia in the past, the bonus being the film price includes processing, you just popo it into the envelope it comes with and post it off.
B&W i have used lots, mainly ilford and kodak. Currently using hp5 and i develop them myself, rerady for scanning...soon 8)
I am experimenting with pushing film at the moment, and trying to bleach out backgrounds with overexposure. Pushing allows you rate a film higher than it is ie a iso 100 film is rated at 800 by changing the setting on your camera. You can then use higher shutterspeeds than usual for a given aperture because the camera thinks you are using higher sensitivity film. Of course you are not but when you process the film you leave it in the developer for longer to get the correct exposure. The offshoot of this is grain is increased but on b&w this can look very nice. If you develop your own film this is easy to do. if you use slide film and take it to a lab they will up rate it when they process but charge more and you need to tell them you pushed it.
Best advice - epxeriment and be prepared for lots of average/unusable pictures...the good ones will off set this
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