Black & White Film
Monochrome emulsions from near-grainless ISO 25 to enormous-grained ISO 3200, plus infrared and orthochromatic responses.
Black and white films differ in two ways that matter: grain structure and spectral response. Traditional cubic-grain films like Tri-X and HP5 give the textured look most people mean by film grain; tabular-grain films like T-Max and Delta trade that texture for smoothness. Spectral response decides how colours become greys — orthochromatic film is blind to red, infrared film sees past it, and the standard yellow, red and green filters shift the balance in between.
20 stocks in this category
Agfa APX 100
A traditional-grain European film with straight, neutral tonality.
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Agfa APX 25
An extremely slow, extremely sharp classic emulsion.
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Fuji Neopan Acros 100
Fuji's fine-grain film, famous for having essentially no reciprocity failure.
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Ilford Delta 100
Ilford's fine-grain tabular film — crisp, clean and slightly contrastier than T-Max 100.
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Ilford Delta 400
Tabular-grain 400 from Ilford: cleaner than HP5, warmer than T-Max.
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Ilford FP4 Plus 125
A classic-grain medium-speed film with long, gentle tonality.
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Ilford HPS 800
A discontinued fast Ilford emulsion sitting between HP5 and Delta 3200.
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Ilford Pan F Plus 50
Ilford's slowest film: near-grainless, high contrast, demanding.
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Ilford XP2
Black and white film developed in colour C-41 chemistry — unusually smooth and flat.
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Kodak BW400CN
Kodak's chromogenic black and white film, with a warm sepia-leaning base.
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Kodak HIE Infrared
True infrared film: white foliage, black skies, glowing halation around highlights.
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Kodak T-Max 100
Extremely fine-grained tabular film — close to grainless at normal enlargements.
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Kodak T-Max 400
Modern tabular-grain film: far finer grain than Tri-X at the same speed.
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Polaroid 664
Peel-apart black and white pack film with medium contrast.
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Polaroid 667
The very fast peel-apart black and white film used for lighting tests.
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Polaroid 672
A medium-speed peel-apart black and white film.
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Rollei IR 400
A modern infrared-sensitive film — the HIE effect, tamed.
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Rollei Ortho 25
Orthochromatic film — blind to red, so it renders the world the way pre-1900 photographs did.
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Rollei Retro 100 Tonal
A long-scale film built for gradation rather than punch.
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Rollei Retro 80S
A fine-grained film with extended red sensitivity and a hard, graphic tonality.
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