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Unfortunately there is no one best black and white film for 120. What do you shoot? Do you use a tripod? Are you going to develop your own film? Will you be bringing the images into a digital workflow? And finally, which film do you like the look of?
If I were you I would shoot a few different brands, all at the ISO you are interested in (e.g.Tri-X, Delta 400, Tmax 400, HP5+) and see what the differences are. The T-grain films (Delta, Tmax) are less forgiving of exposure, but are generally finer grained. If you are going to work on scans from the negatives, you will have broad latitude for contrast adjustment in whatever photo editing software you use. If you are going to develop your own film, you will be able to control contrast and grain at that step as well.
I highly recommend looking into black and white filters, they will allow you to control the contrast between different colored objects in your shots. Here is a decent overview of how they work: http://www.photographymad.com/pages/view/using-coloured-filters-in-black-and-white-photography
Enjoy your new camera, shooting black and white film is so much fun.
Heron
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