Film Stocks

What each film actually looks like — not swatches or spec sheets, but frames shot by people here, with the camera and format behind every one.

543 photographs across 69 stocks.

Black & White 33 stocks · 306 photos

Kodak Tri-X 400 72 Ilford HP5 Plus 37 Kodak Plus-X 34 Kodak T-Max 400 19 Kentmere Pan 400 18 Kodak T-Max 100 16 Ilford FP4 Plus 14 Kentmere Pan 100 9 Agfa APX 100 8 Ilford Pan F Plus 7 Rollei Paul & Reinhold 100 Year Anniversary 7 Fujifilm Acros II 100 6 Fomapan 200 6 Kentmere Pan 200 6 CatLABS X Film 80 5 Ilford Delta 400 5 Efka 5 Mira Color 5 Kodak Ektapan 4 Kodak T-Max P3200 4 Kodak Tri-X 320 4 Fomapan 100 2 Ilford Pan 400 2 Rollei Infrared 400 2 Ilford Delta 100 1 Ilford Delta 3200 1 Kodak Double-X 5222 1 Ferrania P30 1 Kodak VPS 1 Kosmo Foto Mono 100 1 Lucky SHD 400 1 Fujifilm Neopan 400 1 Ilford SFX 200 1

Color Negative 28 stocks · 189 photos

Kodak Portra 400 38 Kodak Gold 200 25 Kodak Ektar 100 19 Fujicolor 400 18 Kodak UltraMax 400 11 Fujicolor 200 9 Ilford Ilfocolor 400 9 Kodak ProImage 100 9 Fujicolor Superia X-TRA 400 8 Kodak UltraColor 400 UC 5 Polaroid 8x10 5 Kodak Ektacolor Pro 4 Kodak Portra 160 4 Kodak Portra 160NC 4 Adox Color Mission 3 CineStill 800T 3 Kodak ColorPlus 200 2 Optik Oldschool Opticolour 2 Kodak Portra 800 2 CineStill 400D 1 CineStill 50D 1 Harman Phoenix 200 1 Harman Switch Azure 1 Lomo Color ‘92 1 Lomography Redscale 1 Polaroid 600 1 Power Geek 200 1 Kodak Vision3 250D 1

Slide / Transparency 8 stocks · 48 photos

Kodachrome 64 17 Kodak Ektachrome E100 10 Kodak Ektachrome 64 7 Agfa Precisa CT 5 Fujichrome Provia 3 Kodak Kodachrome 3 ORWO DP31 2 Fujichrome Velvia 50 1

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Choosing a film stock

Every film above has its own page of photographs members have shot on it, with the camera and format behind each frame and, often, how it was developed. If you’re deciding what to load next, here is the short version of how the main kinds of film differ.

Black-and-white film

Most people start with a 400-speed film because it covers the widest range of light. Kodak Tri-X 400 and Ilford HP5 Plus are the two classics: both forgive exposure mistakes, and both push well to 1600 and beyond when the light runs out. Tri-X has a little more bite and grain; HP5 is a touch softer. Kodak T-Max 400 and Ilford Delta 400 are their modern-grain counterparts — cleaner and sharper, but fussier about development.

At slower speeds, Ilford FP4 Plus and Kodak T-Max 100 trade speed for fine grain and are favorites for landscapes and for medium and large format. Ilford Pan F Plus goes further still at ISO 50. For a cheaper roll to learn on or to develop at home, Kentmere Pan 400, Kentmere Pan 100 and Fomapan are the usual picks. Black-and-white is also the easiest film to develop yourself, and many of these pages include the developing times members used.

Color negative film

Color negative film is what nearly every lab processes (C-41), and it is the most forgiving film there is — most of these handle a stop or two of overexposure with little harm. Kodak Portra 400 is the all-rounder, known for natural skin tones and very wide exposure latitude; Portra 160 is its finer-grained, lower-contrast sibling. Kodak Ektar 100, which Kodak bills as the finest-grained color negative film made, is the most saturated of the professional films — more a landscape film than a portrait one.

Consumer films such as Kodak Gold 200, Kodak UltraMax 400 and Kodak ColorPlus 200 cost less and have a warmer, punchier look that many people now choose on purpose. CineStill 800T is motion-picture film adapted for still cameras: balanced for tungsten light, and known for the red glow it puts around bright highlights at night.

Slide film

Slide film (reversal film, processed in E-6) produces a positive image you can hold up to the light. It has the richest color of any film and the least margin for error — roughly half a stop either way — so careful metering matters more here than anywhere else. Kodak Ektachrome E100 is Kodak’s current slide film, Fujichrome Velvia 50 the famously saturated landscape film, and Provia Fujifilm’s more neutral one. Kodachrome 64 hasn’t been processed in color since the last lab stopped in 2010, but scans of old Kodachrome slides still turn up here regularly.

Films that are no longer made

A good share of the films on this page are discontinued — Kodak Plus-X, Portra 160NC, Kodachrome and others. People still shoot them from old stock, usually expired, and their pages show what that looks like today as well as what the film looked like new.