Of course. He did mention he wanted ISO 400 film, which is why I mentioned the high latitude, I doubt he's going to try shooting very fast film or very slow slides that need perfect exposures. Not at this moment anyway.

yep, but good to know that it doesent apply on all films

Yup.

what haha?

for a nice film for me to get to know this camera a little better what should i get? i was thinking maybe ISO 200, that gives me a bit of play outdoors. And should i try colour or digital. The first 180 pictures or so ill get developed and printed at a shop just so i know what i have done, but then when i get a little better i might do some developing B/w myself!

So my question basically is what's a good starting film for me, just somthing to get to know the camera and produce some nice results, but not too expensive

b&w or color film? kodak released new 100iso color film some time ago called ektar i got one roll of it, but havent finished the roll yet. Its been told to be better that other 100 iso color films till now. If you want b&w film ilford films are good, allso kodak tmax is good, tmy is good for portraits allso. What film you use depends on what you are shooting, there are contrast differences on them, allso grain varies, but you shouldnt care about it with 200iso film really. I dont really know much about color films, other than that ektar 100 iso is really good, there is group for it at flickr if u wanna see what it does, allso you should find reviews on films from google quite easilly, but like all puplic reviews most of them are written by people who dont know much, so read alot of them before making a desicion. Because film isnt free like digital frames i wouldnt get film just for playing around.

atm there is cloudy day and camera gives 1/180sec with f-4 and 100 iso film, so i think you should be fine with 100iso film depending what you are shooting. But you should keep in mind that because film is bigger frame than what your dslr has, so if u frame same thing looking same sized on pic you need to be closer with film and when u get closed you get smaller area focused with same f-number.

Awesome

Today i went out and bought the only film i could get my hands on which was some ISO 200 colour own-brand film, i also got a battery which has sorted out my light meter.

I'm extremely impressed. Bearing in mind this is 30 year old tech, it felt fantastic taking photos with it (well four up to the moment!!) It's much more fun than digital, that's for sure. I chose to get 24 exp. instead of 36, but 24 chances to get 24 usable photos... Its hard because all of the things a digital camera does for you without realising it's pretty solid to remember everything on a film camera.

I would have taken well over four, but just as im about to press the magic button i hold off because well 24 chances - don't wanna screw up!



But its a good experience - and ill be happy if i get a few good pictures out of this - for anyone who likes photography and hasn't shot film before i reckon you should give it a bash coz its pretty cool.

Yeah. I got film and battery for my old one. But I am scared to screw up, so I have not used it yet. xD

I just bought a tenpack of Fuji 400H, I'll tell you how it is.
I'd reccomend getting some Ilford HP5+, great 400 ISO b+w film.

what kind of usage is that HP5+ made for btw? Is it portrait film or is the contrast for general shooting?

It's just for general shooting, but I reckon it'd do fine for portraits, some of the other Ilford films might be better suited though. Really easy film to learn on though.