Largest size color print film

OptiKen · Oct 9, 2015

This is really just a '3:30 AM and I'm still awake thinking' type of question:

What is the largest color print film available (not bulk roll special order)?
Do they make color print film for LF?

bvy · Oct 9, 2015

I've read about special orders for 11x14 Portra, but nothing recently. Portra and Ektar are available in 8x10.

MattKrull · Oct 9, 2015

Greg Davis said:
8x10 is commonly available

Kodak Ektar and Porta are easily found (BH, Adorama, etc) in 100, 160 and 400 speeds up to 8"x10". Provia 100F is also available if you prefer to look through your colour film

LJH · Oct 9, 2015

Velvia is available (albeit not readily) in 8x10".

bvy · Oct 10, 2015

LJH said:
Velvia is available (albeit not readily) in 8x10".

Not exactly color "print" film, but yes. Provia is too, I believe.

LJH · Oct 10, 2015

bvy said:
Not exactly color "print" film, but yes. Provia is too, I believe.

So how come I have colour prints from Velvia on my wall?

Or, have you made the jump from "Print" to meaning "Negative"? If so, show me anyone enlarging colour 8x10" colour negative film.

LF colour film is scanned nowadays, rendering the "print" component ink based, not light.

Even in days of yore, positives were printed via Cibachrome, Ilfochfome etc. Ergo, the "print" nomenclature has never been the sole domain of negative colour film.

So, Velvia is exactly print film.

Photo Engineer · Oct 10, 2015

Common usage is "color negative film" and "color print film" being used interchangeably for "color negative film". Actually, in the industry "color print film" is most often used for ECP or the film used for making prints for motion picture projection. In this thread, we have been assuming "color negative film" as that intended by the OP.

After all, its intent is for making prints, whereas color positive or color reversal (again used interchangeably) is or are products that are not intended for amateur print making without the use of special products to create various masks.

PE

bvy · Oct 10, 2015

LJH said:
So how come I have colour prints from Velvia on my wall?

Or, have you made the jump from "Print" to meaning "Negative"? If so, show me anyone enlarging colour 8x10" colour negative film.

LF colour film is scanned nowadays, rendering the "print" component ink based, not light.

Even in days of yore, positives were printed via Cibachrome, Ilfochfome etc. Ergo, the "print" nomenclature has never been the sole domain of negative colour film.

So, Velvia is exactly print film.

8x10 color negative film can be enlarged or contact printed.

Velvia is thought of as a slide or transparency film before it is a "print film." That's not to say it can't be printed. In the interest of getting the OP the information he wanted, the only "jump" I've made is assuming that he meant color negative film. If you want to extend the discussion to include anything that can be scanned, printed, and slapped in a wall, then certainly we can talk about Velvia and Provia and a million other things.

In any case, Wikipedia defines it as such: "Print film produces a negative image when it is developed, requiring it to be reversed again when it is printed onto photographic paper." And, of course, Wikipedia is never wrong.

Largest size color print film

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