If you are planning on having prints made on real B&W paper, the Ilford XP2+ does a little better. It doesn't have the orange mask of the Kodak C-41 films.(posted 8691 days ago)If you are going to have the stuff printed on color paper at a minilab, the Kodak films do better, and Kodak B&W Select + is supposed to be a little easier for mini labs to print.