Films. You have already bought your favourite 35mm EOS AF SLR camera, be it an EOS 888, EOS 50E or the latest EOS 3 and the respective Canon Speedlites plus a couple of EF lenses, in either single focal length or zoom lenses. And you have all learnt how to use some of the fundamentals of photography as shown in several issues of The Art of Photography so far in this website. Now is the time to transfer your knowledge learnt here into film. For without film, the images that you have visualized will not be preserved unless you have recorded them on film. Photographic films are categorized into two types: black and white (b/w) or colour. Even then, each type is divided into two other categories as well, that is negative or positive. There are black and white negative films for b/w prints and b/w slides film in addition to the wide variety of colour negative and slides film available in the market today. Black and white films and prints are less popular than their colour counterparts nowadays and there are very few studios or labs around that still provides the service for such films in Malaysia at present. It is much easier to load up your EOS cameras with colour films and shoot, had them developed and printed in short notices than it is with black and white films today. For that matter, even all the major newspapers in Malaysia have gone into colour in their usage of news pictures that only a few of the smaller newspapers organizations do still shoot with b/w films. Most of the b/w pictures you see being published in your favourite newspapers nowadays were shot using colour negative films since by using such films, the editors can later decide whether to use the pictures available in colour or in b/w. Even the international news agencies like Reuters, AFP and the Associated Press as well as weekly newsmagazines like TIME, Newsweek or Asiaweek have been shooting with colour negative films for the past decade. Some of them have even done away with film altogether, preferring to use the latest Canon EOS D2000 digital SLR camera to record their news pictures. Using digital cameras will be described in a future issue. For this issue, the focus is all about choosing and using the right film for the right applications as well as film speeds, exposure latitudes and consumer or professional versions. There is an article on using colour slides film as featured in the Films & Accessories No.1 located elsewhere in this website but that article was restricted to only using consumer version of colour slides film to test your camera's built-in exposure metering systems. The majority of Canon EOS users and other photo enthusiasts out there may already know what there is to know about choosing and using films like when to use slow, medium or high speed films, etc. For this group of photographers, they can skip the next two pages and go straight to the HOW TO USE FILM EFFECTIVELY section. << Back to Main . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . 6 . 7 . 8 . 9 . 10 . 11 . 12 .