You know what film I really miss? Kodak Plus-X. I. know during these stressful economic and social times it is too much to hope for *any* film to make a comeback, but if there was one film to be resurrected back to the market my vote would be for Kodak Plus-X in a heartbeat.
I always thought it had some interesting qualities to it. It had a low amount of grain but always still looked like "film” if that makes any sense at all. It had a classic photojournalism look to it. It was almost as if anything you decided to capture with Plus-X automatically looked like it could have come right off the pages of Life Magazine. It was also shockingly versatile for a slower speed film. In the case of this image I’m posting here, I pushed the film up to ISO 320 and still got good results with it. The film inventors over at Kodak back in the day really knew what they were doing when they made this stuff.
The image I’m posting here was made with a Mamiya 1000s and the 80mm f/1.9 lens photographed wide open. That particular lens was always a bit soft when using it at f/1.9 which I never really minded when photographing a portrait. Sometimes a bit of softness can be a nice thing.