What is your go-to film?

[Karl]

Is there a film/developer combination that you trust implicitly? Something you are happy just to reach for when going out? Something that you know will cope with most situations?
I’d have to say mine is Ilford HP5 with a Pyro developer.

 

[Marcel]

I use mostly hp5 and Fp4 and develop with rodinal. I use also fomapan with my 4x5 camera (ilford sheet film are too expensive )
Since a few month I use an ago film processor, and find it very useful.

Marcel

 

[Deon Rey olds]

Toy panorama camera I reload with Kodak Tri-X-135-36 (ISO 200ish) and process with Kodak D-76 1:1 (easy and nice looking to push/pull since cameras don't have any control).
Holga I shoot Ilford FP-4-120 (ISO 100ish) again Kodak D-76 1:1 process normal (very limited push/pull, try to shoot this camera "sunny sixteen").
Hasselblad - Ilford FP-4-120 (ISO 125) same D-76 1:1, Ilford Pan-F-120 (ISO 25) Acufine (both process normal for best results).
M-4 - Ilford FP-4-120 (ISO 125) same D-76 1:1, Ilford Pan-F-120 (ISO 25) Acufine (both process normal for best results).

In the distant past I did custom lab work, regularly being thrown odd-ball rolls or sheets of film. The Compact Photo Lab Index (Morgan & Morgan) was always the goto book to figure out how to process something out of the ordinary without messing it up for the client. I also use the Kodak Professional Black & White Films (publication F-5).

But, I cut my teeth and still to this day refer to these books by Ansel Adams #1 The Camera, #2 The negative, #3 The Print (New York Graphic Society).