- nice overall color and color balance (not bland and not overly vivid) - nice skin tones - mid contrast...works well for people pics, and it'll get the job done anywhere else - can be developed nicely at a Fuji lab(at least Black's)..and thats a big suprise because Fuji's labs are infamous for being incompatible with brands other than Fuji

I'd say grain, but it's APS 400, and to be quite honest I've seen worse in 35mm Kodak Max 400.

I'm a new user of the APS format...I've developed two rolls of Nexia before with ok results. One day at the store they ran out of that film..so in disgust I decided I'll go with the Kodak Advantix just this once. I say disgust because I know how torrid the Max line is in 35mm. But the end result after using this APS film (my third on my Fuji Nexia Q1) was stunning. ALot of the pictures were well-exposed, and when that happens you can't notice grain, especially on a 4 x 6. Well ok, there's alot of grain in low light...meh, it's APS ya know. In comparison to Fuji Nexia 400, Advantix is slightly less saturated and less sharp, but totally makes up for it in skin tones (which were pleasing rather than Nexia's ghostly-white and blemish boosting skin tones). And while less saturated, Advantix had much more consistent colours. Nexia had an overall cool tinge to every picture, but with a strange tendency to oversaturate reds...it gave pictures an odd look, sometimes it works, mostly it doesn't (for people pics where those favored reds boost minor blemishes) A very impressive APS film, I was pleasantly suprised. Just remember it's always better to overexpose rather than underexpose (because when under, the grain goes EVERYWHERE).

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- Fuji Nexia 200 (never again..so BLUE!!) - Fuji Nexia 400 (vivid and sharp, but ghost-like skin tones and oversaturated reds)

GRAIN..dull colors..expensive to buy and process

I am so glad to see that many other people feel that this film is awful as well. I was shooting outdoor subjects in the islands of the Caribbean in bright sunlight. All of my pictures are too grainy to enjoy. Athough I had perfect skies each day, the grain makes it appear as though as it was hazy. Also, the emerald Caribbean water appeared like dull lifeless northern Atlantic water in my pictures. I took 400 speed only because the package claims it is so versatile. Yeah, meaning it is capable of finding many ways to rob you or your money in buying and developing this expensive film, just to get an awful product. I called Kodak and they said that I should have been using 200 speed, and that although 400 is usually the most versatile in 35mm cameras, it doesn't do as well in APS- Kodak admitted it themselves, the Kodak guy basically agreed that 400 APS is crap also. As a last note, I originally sent it to be processed in a Kodak lab, but after I got it back, I gave it to the 1 hour lab at KMART to see what they could do with it. I am not a fan of 1 hour labs, but suprisingly they did better than the Kodak lab! I think I am switching to Fuji.

Customer Service

Kodak labs are not all that spectacular

I'm talking about the new Advantix 400. Color and sharpness are good.
Grains are tolerable.

Grains are very obvious in Panoramic pictures. So try to stick with C or H.

At 400 speed, having tried both Advantix and Nexia I prefer Kodak.

Customer Service

haven't had problem so far.

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Advantix 100, 200
and Nexia 400

Works in APS cameras

Very grainy when enlarged past 4x6

For 4x6 or 5x7 snapshots this film is fine. If you can find a good processor (hard to do in Honolulu) the colors are very nice but lean on the saturated side.

However, enlargements are a joke due to the small negative and the high grain of this film. Even the panoramic shots were too grainy for my taste. When scanning at 2700 DPI the hign grain limited enlargements to about half what is possible with 35mm negs & slides. I only enlarge one shot or so per roll or two to 8x10 or 11x14, but I expected better resolution than this.

Next time I'll try Advantix 100ISO and see if the grain is better.

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Kodak Gold & Ektar (35mm)

Excellent quality, good grain and quality, especially when in good light

Pricey

The best aps film out there, WalMart has 10 paks which keep the price down.

Customer Service

pretty good, lots of perks

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Fuji

Contrast and color are stunning in shots taken under bright, natural light

Even on the panoramic prints the grain is barely noticeable

I find the film a bit pricy, even when bought in the 3-pak.

Having this film developed and processed is a real crap shoot. Ask if the lab it's being sent to is a Kodak Pro lab...anything else and your images are worthless. Overall, a fine film for it's intended application.

Customer Service

Do they have that at Kodak...?

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It's the only film I've ever used in my Canon ELPH

Pretty cheap to buy. Nice quality

Expensive to process.

Nice film! I just wish my camera would stop eating it. All of the pictures of my son, taken both indoors and out have turned out well.

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None

Good, T-grain. Very rich colors for a 400 film.

Nothing of concern, of course 200 and 100 are better. Expensive

Really good film, excellent grain. T-grain was made for APS and ported over to 35mm. To test APS film correctly, ensure you have a good SLR and lens like EOX IX. No point condemning APS film when you use a puny P&S camera....

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Kodak Advantix 100 and 200

Hm...

Grain, Colours

I can not understand the other reviews of this film. I have used APS for as long as the format has existed and this is by far the worst APS film around. I do not know what Kodak has done wrong with this one but the granularity is terrible and the colours are anything but natural. I have used Kodak film exclusively for 20years+ so at first I thought the lab was at fault. Three labs and a number of similar disasters later I gave up and started using Fuji APS film (which is much better).

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All Fuji and Kodak APS film.

good saturation

if anything grain, but c'mon, it's 400 speed aps film, u will see grain.

honestly i was impressed with the film. grain is noticeable in panoramic but otherwise it's a great film and worth trying it out.

also only b&w film available.

Customer Service

none needed.

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fuji 100, 200, 400 speed film

kodak 200

japan camera 200 speed film