Inexpensive when found, accurate color rendition, medium-high contrast, easy to use

Hard to find, not the best choice for indoor available-light use due to color balance issues.

It's too bad that Agfa is officially out of the film biz--this is a bargain-priced ISO800 film with acceptable performance. I'll be scouring the bargain bins for this stuff!

Color rendition: Colors were displayed with a neutral and realistic saturation--you won't get eye-popping color with this film, but it's not bland, either. Under daylight and flash all colors were rendered acceptably, with especially nice reds and yellows. The only weakness I found with the film was that some available-light shots taken indoors under tungsten were much too yellow--you might be disappointed using it indoors without a flash.

Contrast: This film exhibited medium-high contrast--just enough to make prints look snappy. Details were well-rendered, too. .

Grain: This film had some fine grain evident, especially where rendering browns, but it's minimal considering the speed of the film and not bothersome on 4x6 prints. It's much, much better than the Kodak Max 800 I've reviewed.

Sharpness: My prints came back fairly sharp, about what you'd expect from a slightly grainy film. I found it more than acceptable.

Ease of use: The film did have good exposure latitude; my bracketed exposures were all acceptable.

Recommendation: This is a solid choice for use outdoors or with a flash when you need the speed, such as when using a zoom lens and/or using a point and shoot with a weak flash. It's many times better than the Kodak Max 800 I've tried.

Similar Products Used:

Kodak Max 800, Ektar 1000, and Gold 1600; Agfa Vista 400

None that I can think of.

Lack of sharpness. Visible grain on 15cm x 10cm prints. Needs to be overexposed to get reasonable results.

Having read a number of reviews about how ISO 800 films have improved over the last few years, I was a little disappointed after using Vista 800. The resulting prints lacked sharpness, and grain was clearly visible on standard size (15cm x 10cm) prints. I found that overexposing by +1 stop improved the image quality significantly, although grain was still visible. Any underexposure, however, results in murky, unattractive colours. I was particularly disappointed with the results using flash photography. My Canon EOS tends to use the same shutter speed and aperture when using the built in flash no matter what the film speed. However, the photos from Vista 800 appeared more washed out and grainy than the same photos taken using Fuji or Tura 400 speed films. My experience with Konica Centuria Super 800 was slightly better (less grain), but for the time being, I plan to revert back to using ISO 400 film for my winter photography.

Customer Service

Good information on website.

Similar Products Used:

Konica Centuria Super 800, Fuji Superia 400, Tura Color 400, Kodak Gold 400

inexpensive, great color, fine grain, sharp, BEST ISO 800 film!

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(Note: This review is on Walgreens Studio 35 800 film-same film, just packaged for Walgreens in a different box.) This is probably the best ISO 800 film there is available! It's got nonexistent grain, great color with "just-right" saturation, it's very sharp, and it's inexpensive ($3.49 for a 24-exposure roll). Why not try this wonderful film soon? I hope you will!

Customer Service

Never needed it

Similar Products Used:

Kodak MAX (400 & 800), Fuji Superia (400 & 800), Agfa Vista 400

Price

Grain, exposure latutude, weak colors.

The grain of this film is horrible horrible. especially if you try to scan it. Since a few weeks there's an improved version, haven't tried that one and I probably won't either. I'll hurry back to Fuji.

Customer Service

None needed

Similar Products Used:

Fuji 400 Press, Fuji 800 Press, Fuji Superia X-tra 400, Kodak Gold 400, Kodak Zoom 800

-Gine grain, compared to other 400-800 speed films
-Unusually rich colors from a high speed film
-wide exposure latitude
-excellent value and performance

none that I have found

800 speed will never compare to an ISO 100 or less when look at the grain; However, given it's incredible flexability, comparatively rich saturation there is no other film except Fuji's Superia 800 that comes close. I enlarged a photo of a Tucan taken in the shade (135mm, 1/90, f6.7, no tripod) to 8x10" with results VERY close to that of most 100 speed print films. You can't go wrong with these NEW Agfa Vista films!

Customer Service

excellent data at www.agfaphoto.com

Similar Products Used:

Fuji Superia 400, 800
Kodak (all lines) 400, 800