Hi everyone, I am a student at IUP who is currently taking and interst in photgraphy. My qeustion is, I want to begin taking black and white pictures. They seem to catch my attention more but I have no idea on what kind of camera would be best to use. Could someone please let me know. Thanks :)

-- Carrie Hess (cjbaby69@hotmail.com), October 01, 2001

Answers

There's no trick to it at all - if you already own a 35 mm camera simply get yourself a roll of black and white film instead of colour. There is one hitch to it though if you're not doing your own processing - black and white processing is not as conveniently available as colour so depending on where you live it could be treated as a special order and will cost more. Harv

-- Harv Jenkins (hjenkins@prcn.org), October 02, 2001.

Any camera!!! but I would suggest that you buy a set of Black and White filters yellow, orange , red and not a popular one green and I would suggest in G Britain fitting an orange at all times when there is a 'sky' in the shot

-- David A. Henderson (four.bananas@lineone.net), October 09, 2001.

Carrie, No one has mentioned it, but if you already have a 35mm you can get good B&W from the Chromogenic films (Ilford XP2 and TMax400CN) - they process in C41(for color) and can be printed at a one hour lab (if they know how to set up the equipment).

Good luck

-- Mike Castles (photomc@flash.net), November 09, 2001.