Response to film for lanscape work

If there is a film that you know well and with which your images look good to you, use that film. You will know from previous shots how that film reacts to more or less contrasty situations, and what its other limits are. I have screwed up a lot of times because I thought I had to have this or that special film or piece of equipment for a particular opportunity. I have read that previous answer to your question, which gives a lot of arguably useful hints which OTOH could almost scare you off trying to shoot landscapes with your 35 mm equipment. It is evidently true that with medium format or large format negatives it is easier to produce prints with a rich tonality, particularly at the extremes of the density scale. I doubt, however, that you will print all your images in large formats, and with rather small prints (up to 8 by 10), the loss in contrast is in my eyes acceptable when compared to medium format. Also, 35 mm has the great advantage of being affordable, and you need not take along three sherpas to carry your equipment through the desert. So my suggestion would be this: 1) Stick with a film you know and you have tested. 2) Don't let anybody scare you from shooting landscapes in 35 mm.

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