Easy to color balance. 5 stop latitude for over and under's. Excellent color.

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Great film for Weddings and location shoots. NC is also very good. All the Portra's behave similar. Use good paper and good lab.

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Fuji NPH 400. Hardly any latitude with NPH.

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I just wanted to say that I dont think these people know what their talking about. "Only have it processed at a good kodak lab or it will come out green" How can you say that and pretend you know what your talking about. If you knew anything about processing you would know that this is nonsense

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EVERYTHING ! Lacks consistency, first time using this film at a VERY special occassion (cousins engagement). Used 6 roles of it. Believe it or not, only 1 role worth of pictures came out half way decent. I have been shooting indoors a long time and take take people very confidently with pretty good results. The worse film I have ever tried. I will never buy this film again. Have used NPH with wonderful results in the past.

Dont buy this film ! I wouldn't trust my work to this film.

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never needed

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NPH - love it.

Perfect for cloudy days or when shooting in the shade. Give you better color.

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I have to say that I am quite surpised at the reviews that I have read here. This film is a favorite of PROFESSIONAL photographers. I speak with other professional photographers regularly and they LOVE this film! I have exposed literally several hundred rolls of this film just in the last few months and NEVER experienced any of the problems I am seeing in these other reviews by "Expert" photographer using professional labs. There is NO DOUBT in my mind that all these problems are due to amateur errors such as exposing the film without flash in a room lighted by tunsten or fluorescent lights. Even the best professional films, such as Kodak Porta 400VC, can not make up for the mistakes made by amateurs. Good luck and keep trying!

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Nice brochure and packing

ouille ouille ouille what a bad film. And expensive. Way to much grain for a 400 iso, low low contrast, unconsistant colors, not sharp. Flat tones (didn't Kodak mean "vivid color"?).

The big mistake was to buy a pro pack (5 120 film). After the first outdoor try, and the bad results, I just changed the lab to see. I'm not a pro, I can just say that I use MF and care about final and consistant quality and this film don't impress me in any way. Maybe I had bad luck. Anyway, if this film was designed to concurence the Fuji NPH, the mission is no successful.
Maybe Kodak should spend less money in advetisment and brochure and more in research and or quality control.

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Forget it, just avoid Kodak.

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Fujicolor NPH still the king.

Good color rendition. Fine grain as I have recently received 20x30 prints back from qualified lab.

none that I have experienced in 60+ rolls.

I have been using this film (120) for all of my weddings and portraits. I interchangeably use NC and VC for everything from people to pets to product shots. Colors and grain have been everything that I expect. I am very pleased with this film and plan on continuing to use it. My opinion is that some of the other posts degrading the color is a result of improper processing or exposure. Kodak would be out of business long ago if the other posts had any truth to them.

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no experience.

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I used to use Fuji for all work...not any more.

Colors strong and saturated and good contrast. It is good on skin colors. sharp Good for studio work I think

May get greenish at the direct light from tungsten light. Expensive

I was reading all whose reviews and was thinking I will never try this film but for curiosity I got one role and shoot it. The result was so good I did not believe it. I show prints to my wife and my parents and both of them was surprised how good prints are. I was shooting it in low light and available light conditions. Several shoots I did at night at the mood and the picture was good. I think this film for professional photographers. And needs proper handling to achieve good results. I defiantly will come back to this film again. Some of the reviews look like nonsense

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no nead of

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Contrarily to what some people here say: One of the finest 400's out there! Sharp. Beautifull colors and renderes skin tones marvellously.

I wouldnpt use it for anything else than portraits.

Personnaly, it's my favorite portrait film.

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Kodak gold 400, 800, 1000

I only use the roll film version of this product (120/220). For daylight and twilight photography, this film excels. It has excellent saturation, contrast and shows little grain at 11x16. (cropped from 6x6 negs).

In overcast conditioins, which is exactly when you need a VC film, Portra VC falls apart; the colors are weak, grays are muddy and there's often a subtle salmon hue to the prints (with kodak processing on Portra III paper). When used for what it's meant for, Portra VC 400 is crap.

A great film for clear sunny days/evenings, but forget about it on overcast days; you'll be dissapointed.

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Never needed, but Kodak does have the best web site of any film manufacturer.

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Name another high saturation 400 speed (print) roll film? There really isn't any.

Less grain, resonably sharp

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I was shooting a school play in a reasonably dark stage w/o flash with my 70-200 2.8 and the pictures came out very good. Hardly any grain. Couple of flash pics were bad. The pictures were reasonably sharp. Everyone loved the pictures. Had to use a tripod.

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