New Versions:Kodak Professional Portra 400NC and 400VC films

[JLP]

Did everybody miss the fact that these new portras will not be available in sheet film? Very disapointing.


jan

 

[MattKing]

Did everybody miss the fact that these new portras will not be available in sheet film? Very disapointing.


jan

If I read the press release info (the Questions and Answers pdf) correctly, the 400NC continues to be available in sheet film sizes, and the 400VC (continues) to not be available in sheet film sizes.

Matt

 

[JLP]

Matt, Youre right, i missed that part. Ok, i am happy again not that there's anything wrong with the C2, it's a great film in any format.
Thanks for correcting me.

jan

 

[Woolliscroft]

Is it still made in 220?

 

[Matt5791]

Really pleased about this because 400NC in 35mm is a really important film for my wedding work and I'm always trying to achieve the finest grain possible. Ideally I like to use the 160NC, but often the light is just not good enough.

 

[braxus]

New 2008 400 speed Portras Revision 3, etc

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&pq-locale=en_US&gpcid=0900688a8086da90

http://www.kodak.com/eknec/PageQuerier.jhtml?pq-path=2709&pq-locale=en_US&gpcid=0900688a8086dabc

I haven't seen a post to this yet, so I'd thought I'd put one up. Apparently there is a revision 3 coming soon for Portra 400NC and VC. Even finer grain then the last revision.

Also 800 MAX film is seeing a new revision similar to what was done on Gold 100 and 200. I suspect this was in the works from years ago and since film is still selling well, Kodak decided to impliment it. Ron might have more info on that. Nice to see film still going strong.

 

[Christiaan Phleger]

Sheesh! I was just getting ready to continue to rave about the 2nd gen (3rd? I forget) improvement of Portra. the 400VC just completely eliminated UC400 from my usage, better grain in skintones (neutral too) while keeping lots of the UC vivid color 'POP'. I suppose the 3rd (err, 4th? Maybe I'm counting the pre-Portra Pro films) will be just as good and perhaps even better.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

I haven't seen a post to this yet, so I'd thought I'd put one up.

It's easy, you just have to search a little:
(there was a url link here which no longer exists)

 

[braxus]

Has Kodak released a Tech Pub for these new films yet? I'd like to see what the PGI grain numbers are now.

 

[braxus]

Ok. Usually this forum has posts from a month back showing, so that is where I checked. Anyway I continued my questions in the other post.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Threads merged.

 

[Michel Hardy-Vallée]

Ok. Usually this forum has posts from a month back showing, so that is where I checked. Anyway I continued my questions in the other post.

It hasn't been updated yet, September 2006 version:
http://kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/e4040/e4040.pdf

 

[ajuk]

The edge markings should be help enough for now:

Original Portra: 160NC, 160VC, 400NC, 400VC, 800
1st Update: 160NC-2, 160VC-2, 400NC-2, 400VC-2, 800-2
2nd Update: 400NC-3, 400VC-3

But apparently the third upgrade of Portra 800 still says 800-2 :confused:

How old is the Portra range?

 

[braxus]

How old is the Portra range?

It came out in around the late 90s if I remember right. Before that there was the Pro 100, 400, and 1000 series. And the old standby VPH.