beginner

Congratulations on deciding to try black and white, hopefully you'll find it very rewarding. To answer some of your questions, if you live in or near a city you shoud be able to find many brands of black and white film. You probably won't find them at your local supermarket but certainly a camera store and film processors will stock some. If you don't want to develop your own film there are two excellent BW films that are processed by the normal commercial color processors; they are Ilford XP-2 and Kodak Tmax 400CN. They cost the same as color film and you only pay for the developing it will be cheaper to process. I think you'll find in general that after the initial cost of equipment and paper that developing and printing your own BW will be cheaper than color. As for books you can save money by visiting a good library where you should find all the best darkroom books. You might also want to check out a local camera club. Typically most members shoot color but there is bound to be someone that has a darkroom and can give specific advice and as you can tell by this forum we love talking about our passion. Finally, your Yashica or any other camera can be used for black and white. Good luck.

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