Superia 1600 vs Natura 1600

[RattyMouse]

Any difference between these two films?

 

[mnemosyne]

Two things to consider

• given the state of affairs in the film market, is there any realistic chance that Fuji would produce two different versions of a niche product like a ISO1600 film?
  
• according to the data sheets for both films the specs (spectral response, characteristic curves, granularity ...) are 100% identical

Now you can draw your own conclusion

 

[flavio81]

In any case this film is excellent, one of my favorite color films, true ISO 1600, excellent in indoors lighting, and can enlarge to 8x10" without problems. Do OPTICAL enlargements; if you try to do it the d!gital way (by scanning), the grain will blow up horrible due to grain aliasing! I did a comparison about 10 years ago -- 8x10" done by the Frontier system (d!gital) versus the same frame enlarged optically; the difference in grain was dramatic.

 

[RattyMouse]

Two things to consider

• given the state of affairs in the film market, is there any realistic chance that Fuji would produce two different versions of a niche product like a ISO1600 film?
  
• according to the data sheets for both films the specs (spectral response, characteristic curves, granularity ...) are 100% identical

Now you can draw your own conclusion

Well, I wish I didnt spend big $$$ ordering Natura from Japan some time ago. B & H has Superia 1600 here in the US. Oh well.

 

[RattyMouse]

In any case this film is excellent, one of my favorite color films, true ISO 1600, excellent in indoors lighting, and can enlarge to 8x10" without problems. Do OPTICAL enlargements; if you try to do it the d!gital way (by scanning), the grain will blow up horrible due to grain aliasing! I did a comparison about 10 years ago -- 8x10" done by the Frontier system (d!gital) versus the same frame enlarged optically; the difference in grain was dramatic.

Sadly, optical printing is not as easy to find as it used to be.

 

[flavio81]

Sadly, optical printing is not as easy to find as it used to be.

I think I can get RA4 paper easily here, but not the chemicals; it seems that stores only have their own supplies of the big-sized RA4 chemicals, the ones that work with replenishment fluids etc etc and suited to minilabs.

I've heard that RA4 paper development is easy and now i have a color enlarger, so it would be interesting to try.

 

[Athiril]

There is actually a difference between Superia XTRA 400 and Superia Premium 400, so perhaps?