35mm ASA 400 film suggestions

[Erik Petersson]

I'd also suggest looking into the Kodak Gold line. I think it may have been cancelled but it was decent stuff for consumer-class film. I fyou can find it you'll likely be pleased. Whatever you do, do not get sucked into the Kodak consumer ColorPlus product line -- pure trash.

I have not tried that one. Why is it trash?

 

[removed account4]

Oh sorry, i did not notice the pages 2 and3... I thaught it was black and white.

But you can obtain color from black and white. It's called trichromie in french

but you need 3x as much film,
unless ... you triple expose each frame

 

[BrianShaw]

I have not tried that one. Why is it trash?

poor color, lots of grain, and overall laack of clarity.

 

[gryffinwings]

Well I'm going to continue using the Fuji Superia 400 X-tra until it runs out, still on my first roll.

What do you guys think of this film, any pictures you could post would be great.

 

[jm94]

Have already been bitten by colour plus... Total garbage. Poor colours and so much grain for a 200 speed film. Blood red of a sunset came out yellow and blues of a lake not even fully blue. I got better results with the gold line. Save your pennies.

 

[Rick A]

Well I'm going to continue using the Fuji Superia 400 X-tra until it runs out, still on my first roll.

What do you guys think of this film, any pictures you could post would be great.

I rarely shoot color film, when I do it's usually Superia 200 or 400. I buy it in the conveniently cheap four pack, because it's cheap, but very acceptable results.

 

[BrendanCarlson]

I like the results that I have gotten from Fuji Superia 400, I really want to try out some Kodak Portra 400.
There are a few choices out there though!

 

[gryffinwings]

What's the difference between slide film and negative film?

 

[MattKing]

What's the difference between slide film and negative film?

Negative film gives you a negative. The tones are reversed (shadows are clear, whereas highlights are solid, and the colours are both heavily masked orange, and reversed - red in the original scene are cyan in the negative, greens in the original scene are magenta in the negative, etc.

You need to either scan and invert a negative or (ideally) print a negative to get a recognizable final product. Until recently, the films you saw in a movie theatre were almost inevitably edited to a negative, and then printed on projection stock.

Slide films give you a positive as a final product. Ideally you project or view a slide directly, although you can print them (Ilfochrome - costly, discontinued, but special) or scan them and print from the scan.

If you have never seen a well projected slide, you should seek one out.

Slide film is more demanding when it comes to exposure - similar to digital.

 

[BrendanCarlson]

There are a lot of threads on APUG about this, search them out, you will learn a lot!