Portra 400 and big prints

[darkosaric]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyROPxGDSAo

Nice !

 

[duparis00]

Gorgeous.

 

[JaZ99]

White rebate?

 

[spatz]

The photographer is called Severin Koller. He has some fantastic street photography on his blog, all shot on a hexar af.

 

[DREW WILEY]

I shot my first roll of it in 6x7, and was surprised at how sharp it is for the speed. So far, I'm not terribly impressed with the hue palette, which
seems a bit of a compromise between my two favorite choices, Portra 160 vs Ektar. A nice tool when you do need the speed, however. Doubt I'll
buy any in 8x10 sheets. Gotta want it damn bad to spend that kind of money.

 

[darkosaric]

The photographer is called Severin Koller. He has some fantastic street photography on his blog, all shot on a hexar af.

Yes, first time I saw his work on deviantart, and on some videos about street photography.

 

[baachitraka]

Recently visited Salgado exhibition in Bremen and I am amazed by the size of the prints. I presume they were shot with film since they date them late 90's.

 

[Roger Cole]

Humm. I can't tell the difference between Portra 160 and 400 in smallish prints I get back from automated labs. Not saying much, I know. I don't mean to imply grain and sharpness are identical, I know better than that, rather that the color is so close as to be masked at least by the automatic algorithms used by such labs. I suspect Drew can spot differences I could not see, but I also suspect I might be able to tell if I were optically printing it myself again.

Either way, it's an amazing film for the speed.

Now if Ferrania or a revamped KA would give us an Ektar type film in 400....

And then I woke up.

 

[spatz]

Roger, i think PE mentioned that Ektar 400 would be quite easy and feasible to make. The only thing which might push it in that direction is if ektar 100 gets bumper sales while portra 400 sales drop in favour of ektars colour palette, grain and saturation. Ektar 400 would be exciting!

A dream for sure but closer to reality than a return of any kind of kodak reversal film.

I actually recently acquired a Hexar AF having seen the images that its capable of producing along with a brick of Ektar. Well, more than anything the optical prints in the video are a testament of the quality you can get from analogue processes given that you offer them the attention to detail they require.

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Looked like some beautiful prints. I love Kodak Portra films, but I'm not that discerning when it comes to color film. Currently I'm using up a bunch of Fuji 160S and C, some 800NPZ, and Reala. Wonderful stuff too.

 

[mnemosyne]

The photographer is called Severin Koller. He has some fantastic street photography on his blog, all shot on a hexar af.

Just to avoid confusion, the prints in the linked video are from MF negatives.

 

[baachitraka]

6x9 from Fuji I believe.

 

[MartinP]

I had a nice idea for contact-printed 8x10" Portra pinhole pictures, to go along with some monochrome shots I made on 8x10" Fomapan . . . then I discovered how much it cost. Oh well.