I've played with pretty much any film I come across, and in terms of cost-benefit I've settled on Fomapan films. I like the grain structure, they are some of the cheapest BW film available and have great latitude if you like to mess with stand development. I shot this photo on a Pentax ME camera using Fomapan 100. Developed at home with Ilfotec DDX and scanned with a Canon 5D Mk3 + Canon 100mm f2.8.
Ilford FP4, mostly. I shoot virtually exclusively large format, occasionally medium format, but pretty much always from a tripod, and like longer exposures and / or wide open apertures, so have no need for a faster film.
I quite like Fomapan 100, but it fails because of extreme reciprocity on long exposures.
I would love to shoot Fuji Acros again, that was the perfect film for me. But Fuji.
The prices for Kodak in 4x5 are absurd, bad enough I have to put up with those for color.
FP4 is beautiful, I shoot Fomapan for price, but FPR is amazing. I don't shoot a lot of very long exposures so didn't know about those issues with Fomapan, a shame. So what you're saying is, it is not consistent with long exposures? Like, several long exposures that are exactly the same result in different film reactions?