lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

As you noticed, men tend to think along different lines than women. Especially here, on a photography forum. The OP knew that. I think he was trying to see how far it went before someone figured it out.

On a side note, throughout our almost 40 year marriage, we have had 16 dogs. The second one she named Shadow Dancer. Every pup since then has had Dancer in their name.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Yes, he was pulling as many legs as he could. I, like Tom, was kind of hoping no one would tip the pot for a while longer just to see how many many old farts just fell in line.

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

Yes, The Voyage Home was my favorite Star Trek movie. Kind of made you think that maybe the human species is not the most intelligent in the universe, or even on this planet.

sgt hop Loc: baltimore md,now in salisbury md

i was a tri-x fam myself......

lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle

You must be related to Doc Martin and Dr Simon Tam.

Bill_R Loc: Southeastern Wisconsin

Personally, I liked First Contact the best. I appreciated the message that even brilliant scientists are fallible human beings that may drink too much! The Voyage Home was also excellent and runs a close second to The Wrath of Khan.

rlv567 Loc: Baguio City, Philippines

As it happens, I never heard of them.

Loren - in Beautiful Baguio City

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

It's probably a difficult question to answer due to the 'ever' part. Each film has its best application. So, the best film ever is a difficult one. So, here are my favorites.

Prior to digital, my favorite was Kodachrome. It always gave me nice bright colors. However, Kodak quit making it, and digital works just fine for color. It took a while to figure out why I didn't always like the colors I got from digital. Then, I discovered hue contamination and worked out a method to compensate for it.

Now, my favorite choice of films is Ilford FP4+ for medium and large format and either Delta 400 or HP5 (ISO 400) for 35mm using Ilfotec DD-X for development. I used to use Kodak Plus-X and Tri-X. Kodak quit making Plus-X in the format I needed. I switched to Ilford products at that point, along with a good deal of analytical lab work to start.
--Bob

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Nothing like derailing a conversation. Good job.
--Bob

yorkiebyte Loc: Scottsdale, AZ/Bandon by the Sea, OR

Pulp Fiction, followed by The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly trilogy. As far as Film for a camera - Kodak Ektar 25.

rck281 Loc: Overland Park, KS

How about Kodachrome 10?

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

I would have responded, "Best film for what use?"

I never thought there was just one.

> I used Kodak Tri-X most often when growing up (age 13 to 20)

> I used Ilford HP5 and HP5 Plus instead of Tri-X after that.

> I used Kodachrome 64 for 90% of my personal slides. The rest were Ektachromes and Fujichromes.

> I used several different Ektachromes for work slides when producing AV shows:

Ektachrome 50 Tungsten on the copy stand

Ektachrome 64 Daylight and Ektachrome 400 Daylight for general multi-image slide photography

Ektachrome 5071 Duplicating Film for continuous light duplicating setups (those with enlarger color heads)

Ektachrome SO-366 (Special Order) Duplicating Film for my Bowens Illumitran (with electronic flash)

> I used Kodalith 6556 (ASA 6 ultra-high contrast black-and-white lithographic "line" film) for title slides and special effects production.

> At the lab I worked for in the early 1990s, we used Kodak Vericolor Internegative Film to make copy composites of elementary school class portraits. It yielded great results, but it was THE most finicky film I ever used. We had a 14' overhead rail horizontal graphic arts camera with 60"x40" copy board and 20"x24" vacuum film back. We bought the film in master rolls and slit/sheeted it to 5x7, 6x8, 8x10, and 11x14 sheets. We had a Refrema dip-and-dunk processor to soup the stuff. When you make a quarter million class composite prints a year, you don't mess around.

> We used Kodak Vericolor II, then Vericolor III, then Portra 160 NC Professional Color Negative Film for school portraits. It came in 135, 120, and 220 size rolls, and unperforated 35mm, 46mm, and 70mm 100-foot rolls. In peak season, we used over 10,000 — 100' rolls of 46mm, plus lots of 35mm perforated (size 135 cartridges) and 120/220 roll film.

So I always have to qualify the question with, "Best film for what use?" You need more than one if you do highly specialized work.

srg

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raymondh Loc: Walker, MI

I doubt you would get any argument from Paul Simon.

Bridges Loc: Memphis, Charleston SC, now Nazareth PA

If you like cliffhangers, you would not want to miss "No Way Out" with Kevin Costner.