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Going down the rabbit hole of thinking about sadly discontinued film, I stumbled on a page of someone shooting agfa ultra 50 (the most utterly ridiculous film) with a rolleiflex (the most ridiculous camera). https://www.35mmc.com/08/04/2023/rolleiflex-3-5f-and-agfa-ultra-50-taveling-in-turkey-and-pakistan-by-ibraar-hussain/

You could probably pull process a few stops. https://www.belindajiao.com/blog/pushing-pulling-film

I believe ilford xp2 was the original c41 process b&w. Neither holds a candle to tmax.

To add to this, color positive film was typically associated with "better" color reproduction and archivability than color negative film. And the color positive to high quality print process (Cibachrome/Ilfochrome) goes back a long way and yields better quality and more archival prints than the negative to negative color process. But to the best of my knowledge, there has never been a commercial positive to positive B&W process* and the negative to negative process is of such high quality and extreme archivability that there wouldn't be a point in developing it. That makes B&W slides a not very useful gimmick. It's also the case that [good] B&W photographers do a lot of darkroom work as the process lends itself to it. It wasn't unusual for me to spend full days and dozens of sheets of paper trying to get one print right, and I was a rank amateur. B&W slides would have been useless in that regard. *You can reverse process B&W film to make slides (though I assume you still battle base + fog). I'm sure someone has done the same with paper, but it certainly isn't a common thing.

Agfa Scala was a thing in the 90's, but otherwise I don't remember any B&W slide films.

Not sure it was ever common, but Ektagraphic HC slide film was one of my favorites. https://125px.com/docs/film/kodak/f12-Ektagraphic_HC.pdf https://www.lomography.com/films/871967025-kodak-ektagraphic-hc/photos

Me, too ...

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Back in the day, I owned a pretty good pile of Contax gear - both RTS and G systems. I also worked at a used camera shop and had access to whatever Hasselblad/Mamiya/Leica/etc stuff I wanted to play with. All my best shots from the time were taken with a Vivitar branded K1000 knock off I bought in the 4th grade, and a zoom lens my mother-in-law bought at a garage sale for $15.

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Neat.

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Happy birthday!

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