GLS, I have been looking at your 400H example for about 5 hours now and I know that eventually I will find all the faults apparently associated with this film sooner or later. It may have to be later. Judging by my lack of success so far, possibly a lot later. I tried to find the problems with the others such as halfaman, dourbalistar and Truzi but they were no better in terms of faults to be discovered
pentaxuser
Here is an example with a lot of green tones, but not the same strong green cast as @Bormental . This film was expired in 2008, of unknown storage when I purchased it, so I shot it at E.I. 100. Developed normally and scanned by Precision Camera in Austin.GLS, I have been looking at your 400H example for about 5 hours now and I know that eventually I will find all the faults apparently associated with this film sooner or later. It may have to be later. Judging by my lack of success so far, possibly a lot later. I tried to find the problems with the others such as halfaman, dourbalistar and Truzi but they were no better in terms of faults to be discovered
pentaxuser
Here is an example with a lot of green tones, but not the same strong green cast as @Bormental . This film was expired in 2008, of unknown storage when I purchased it, so I shot it at E.I. 100. Developed normally and scanned by Precision Camera in Austin.
2018.04.14 Roll #149-000919570010.jpg by dourbalistar, on Flickr
Haha, my friend is part German, so your teetotaller explanation is not far off!Thanks and this looks fine and is good enough to distinguish between several shades of green but frankly the only reason, I suspect, that his face does not have a green cast given the predominance of green in the picture is that this man is immune to green casts as he is a lifelong teetotaller( this may explain the happy look). I, on the other hand, am not a teetotaller and never fail to exhibit a green cast on my face until at least lunchtime the next day. Ektar with its alleged high saturation give me a kind of a satisfying saturated greeness,.Portra mutes the greeness but gives me a deathly look that I never allow onto facebook
Why? Am I ashamed of the look? Not at all but I can't have every funeral director for a hundred miles around bothering the wife for more business .Be happy like your friend and enjoy a cast-less future
pentaxuser
Fair enough, everyone has their own tastes and preferences. Like @GarageBoy noted, there's certainly a strong bias toward that "wedding style" when you search for samples on the web, but I agree that Pro 400H tends toward cool and green tones compared to Kodak Portra. And I don't think your eye is defective, though I do think the initial samples you posted are atypical. In any case, everyone interprets color a bit differently, so it's great that we still have at least a few choices when it comes to color film stocks.Here's all I needed to see to realize this film is just not for me. To my, apparently defective eye, this is black&white film where green=black and magenta=white. And my original sample is no more green/magenta than any.
I clicked on a few of those linked samples.Here's all I needed to see to realize this film is just not for me. To my, apparently defective eye, this is black&white film where green=black and magenta=white. And my original sample is no more green/magenta than any.
And I don't think your eye is defective.
Even if she didn't get paid for photographs, I'd say it's wise to trust her judgement.well, my spouse thinks I'm color blind. She sees "gentle pastel" and "air". I see "swamps" and "mold". But she's the one in the family who gets paid for photographs, so I trust her judgement
well, my spouse thinks I'm color blind. She sees "gentle pastel" and "air". I see "swamps" and "mold". But she's the one in the family who gets paid for photographs, so I trust her judgement
The page looks like a way to desensitize non-committal men into semi-forced matrimony. Run, Forrest, Run!
Here's all I needed to see to realize this film is just not for me.
+1That is not Fuji 400H either, just a very special use of it where scaninng and editing play a very important role. It is "Richard Photo Lab" look, they can do it with any color film.
Check below Portra 160 processed and scanned in the same lab.
http://annawu.com/blog/2011/03/color-kodak-portra-shooting-film/
That's odd. Why wouldn't I trust internet scans? Internet is vast, it's a huge data set. Large data sets are a valid research tool, that's primarily how drugs are developed. You do not have to be a genius to run a search, look at hundreds of photos from various sources and come to reasonable conclusions. Besides, I've gone through two rolls myself and got the "swampy" look, I asked on photrio and got several swampy samples in comments, seemingly liked by others. Then I've gone through internet data set and 99% of samples had the same swampy look. Then I had experienced people discover post-processing pre-sets that simulate the swampy look. Apparently green/magenta tint is well liked, as evidenced by my wife's reaction.
I have no reason to believe in existence of some "true" Fuji 400H color profile, which the entire internet conspired to hide from me.A more plausible explanation is that my preference for color deviates from the majority here and I'm OK with that.
There is the rub - can those conclusions about the film be reasonable, based on what you are examining?That's odd. Why wouldn't I trust internet scans? Internet is vast, it's a huge data set. Large data sets are a valid research tool, that's primarily how drugs are developed. You do not have to be a genius to run a search, look at hundreds of photos from various sources and come to reasonable conclusions.
There is the rub - can those conclusions about the film be reasonable, based on what you are examining?
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