Kodak Portra 400 35m 36exp Film Professional 5 Pack

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If I wanted to give one of my point ‘n’ shoot cameras to a friend who doesn’t shoot film to try and see how they liked it, Portra would also be a likely choice. I think it’d give them results that’d make them want to shoot more film. Kodak Introduces Enhanced PORTRA Color Negative Films with Finer Grain, Spectacular Skin Tones, Vivid Color and Ideal Scanning Performance" (Press release). Cameratown. September 11, 2006 . Retrieved 2009-10-27. A Fuji X Weekly reader suggested to me that if I use my Kodak Portra 160 recipe, except increase Shadow, Highlight and Color by one, that should be pretty close to Portra 400. Indeed it is! I liked what I saw, but I played around with the settings more to see if I could improve on it. Turns out not much needed to be tweaked. I liked the results better with Color Chrome Effect set to Strong, but if you have an X-Trans III camera, which doesn’t have that feature, you can still use this recipe, but it will look slightly different. The only other change that I made was I set Grain to Strong. In this video, Film Supply Club takes us through a head to head comparison of two of the most popular films of the day: Kodak Portra 400 and Kodak Ektar. Both of these films are available in 35mm, 120, as well as in large format (4x5 and 8x10 both), which makes them both desirable options. The quality of the images is very good, and very useable for my purposes. I have printed some of these up to A2, and the grain and tones have a wonderful aesthetic to my eye. Sometimes there is a yellowish colour cast, but this is easily removable in photoshop during the scanning process. There is also a slight colour shift. in the shadows especially, but again this is nothing that can’t be adjusted in post. Portra 400 at EI 1600 pushed two stops

The new Portra 400 Film is the world?s finest grain high-speed colour negative film. At true ISO 400 speed, this film delivers spectacular skin tones plus exceptional colour saturation over a wide range of lighting conditions. Inside Analog Photo Radio – Scott DiSabato". 2010-10-02. Archived from the original on 2010-10-22 . Retrieved 2011-01-03. I think that generally, Portra is known for its muted, pastel colours (with perhaps a very slight yellow hue) and to be honest, Fuji Superia nearly replicates that with perhaps a little bit more saturation. Kodak Portra 400 35mm has an ISO of 400. This means that it is known as a mid-speed film, and will be able to take photos in most common lighting situations. Finally for this section, there’s a Portra 400 datasheet right here that gives you more information than I care to parrot, although I will relay some impressive-sounding highlights.

As the old NC and VC versions were consolidated in 2010 due to the increase in digital processing going on, improving the scanning performance for the new version as Kodak did was a natural step forward too. For better or worse, a lot of hobbyist film shooters want a certain vintage look. With its sunny feel and colours and contrast that enhance a scene without making it unrealistic, Portra seems to deliver exactly what they want.

I think Fuji Superia 400 could be a great option for projects that might not be completely important. Like, let’s say you want to shoot good portraits or documentary photography or street photography and you want it to be good but you don’t need it to be absolutely perfect, this is where I think Fuji Superia comes into play. The good news is that most of the dynamic range of this film is well below DMax of 3, which most scanning devices should handle well. It also helps to have a sharp, well-defined grain which makes focusing with your digital camera or a dedicated scanner like PrimeFilm XAs easier. Quite how much quality drop-off there’ll be at the extreme ends of this, I don’t know. But it’s useful to have if your scenes have a lot of contrast or you’re using a camera with no built-in light meter. After shooting your Portra, it’s developed using the standard C-41 process. It’s also designed to be a great film for scanning, which makes a lot of sense considering its history.

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The 800 speed opens this film up to extensive use from bright to low light situations. The high speed also allows capture at high shutter speeds, making this the best option if you’re focused on action and movement. The exposure latitude with 800 lets you meter at 640, or even 400 – although, the film will do just fine at box speed metering. Kodak films do tend to give your photographs a warmness, especially when compared to typical Fujicolor offerings. Portra 400 is no different in that sense, and I think it’s that warmness combined with the more muted colours that brings it so many fans. KODAK PROFESSIONAL PORTRA 160NC, 160VC, 400NC, 400VC, and 800 Films" (PDF). Kodak. February 2009 . Retrieved 2009-10-27. I recently wrote about shooting my first roll of Portra 400, which I had shot at EI 800 and pushed a stop. There were a few commenters who seemed surprised at the results of pushing this film one stop, which surprised me as I have always had great results from both naturally underexposing film, and chemically pushing after shooting. These were sold alongside Ektacolor until 1974 when the upgraded Vericolor Professional II came along, with the codes updated to VPS and VPL. At this point, Ektacolor and the original Vericolor films were discontinued.

The only elephant in the room here is something we maybe should have touched on earlier. It’s not cheap. In fact, depending on where you shop, Portra 400 might be Kodak’s most expensive colour negative film. The bottom line here is that Portra 400 is a fantastic film and one that’s great for seasoned shooters as well as newcomers to analogue photography. The grain’s sharpness is a separate concept from grain size. It refers to the amount of definition around the edges of the film particles. For example, slide films tend to have less grain sharpness, which makes them appear smoother when enlarged. However, sharp grain can make things like distant text appear more legible even if the granules are large.Kodak Portra of all sorts is a negative film. Typically, it’s light hungry. Meter for the shadows on someone’s face if you’re using it for portraiture. Otherwise, it’s not a bad idea to give it up to a stop more of light. On your camera, use the +1 exposure compensation setting. It works because nothing in the image is overdone, yet nothing is bland either. I assume, since I never shot them, that it’s like they took the differing attributes of the NC and VC versions and somehow got them to work together.