Porta 160

[baachitraka]

I may be placing an order to get Portra 160 but I found that my local lab is doing E-6.

Will this film go well with E-6?

 

[markbarendt]

Portra is normally developed in C-41, not E-6.

 

[markbarendt]

I'd be a bit surprised if they did strictly E-6, ask them if they do C-41 too.

 

[baachitraka]

http://www.foto-bischoff.de/fachgeschaeft/fachlabor/index.html

Well, this is what they put on their page.

 

[julhu]

I know that shop and I'm pretty sure they do C41 as well. Maybe they do not do it themselves but ship it to a bigger lab...
Why don't you just ask them? I always found them nice to deal with.

 

[benjiboy]

Kodak Portra is a colour negative film not an E6 colour slide film, and requires processing in C 41 chemistry.

 

[baachitraka]

Never shot anything with color film and we are just curious to see how our new born will look with prints/scan form color negs in 120.

 

[clayne]

It'l look great as all Portra films are quality stuff.

 

[markbarendt]

Gorgeous.

 

[mnemosyne]

Never shot anything with color film and we are just curious to see how our new born will look with prints/scan form color negs in 120.

Best to use ambient/natural light (shouldnt be a problem at this time of the year, avoid fluorescent light!), and as you live in Germany, send the stuff off to FARBGLANZ, their scans are really good and
will give you the beautiful skin tones that Portra stands for. Prices are reasonable. While resolution is limited to about 1600px on the long side, for bigger prints you can always have single frames re-scanned by a professional lab later with the Farbglanz scans as "color reference".

 

[markbarendt]

Indoors using bounce flash can solve a lot of the fluorescent vs daylight color issue.

 

[MattKing]

The new-born will be beautiful no matter what film you use .

Congratulations!

And Portra is wonderful for people pictures - especially with soft light.

 

[MattKing]

http://www.foto-bischoff.de/fachgeschaeft/fachlabor/index.html

Well, this is what they put on their page.

If you look at the "Contact" page on that site, "Yvonne Rusch" is identified as being responsible for "Photo minilab production" (as translated to English) and she is clearly holding a strip of 35mm negative (C-41) film.

 

[baachitraka]

I have two umbrellas standing right and left with some offset. One with Metz CL-45 that has 7.2v RC power pack and other with 430EX II. Sufficient light, I was quite tempted after seeing photos of Portra 160 in flickr otherwise my choice is CHS 100(120) + APX 100(135) + Rodinal.

I will check out with other studios here in Bremen...