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Bog standard film, no it was pretty average. To make it worse they changed the emulsion sensitivity of Ha all the time. I'd find a good one and they would go and change it. Hypered film, especially the Ha sensitive ones like Kodak TP-2415 were very good. Right up there with DSLR's IMO. Fine grain, you could enlarge it quite a bit. But it was a monochrome film. I never found a colour film I was happy with that could match TP-2415. I have a couple of boxes (hundreds) of 10x8" prints from TP-2415. Fuji 800 was reasonable, for a while until they messed with it.
The drawbacks of film are many. Poor efficiency, reciprocity failure - the effect of losing speed the longer you expose, can't stack multiple exposures unless scanned and digitised, the wait of days to get it processed to see if the exposure even turned out. Because of that the learning curve was painfully slow. Exposures had to be long and mounts had to have perfect PA.
If you want I can scan a few.
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