Based solely on my experience, its an excellente film the Porta 400VC. Shot about 15 rolls of it on my medium format camera and all came out beautiful.

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Personally I'm very satisfied with this film and will keep using it, along with the lab that does the devloping for me.
If anyone wants to have a look at some photos shot with Porta 400 VC visit my web site www.members.tripod.com/demouraphotography all the pictures where taken using this film.

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Fuji NPH, great film too!

good fine grain for fast speed & great mid contrast(?). Also I love the colour

A bit expensive and not very available

I like it alot. Fast with no grain and people shots look very flattering with colour that looks better than real life but not unnatural. AUS$81 for a 5 pack is a bit expensive but thats not a very big issue for me since a don't shoot heaps. 4 rolls at my sisters wedding showed prints better than the pro's. I also shot 2 rolls of NPC160 that day which look very similar. T400CN also looks good with portra(higher contrast & no colour though, duh). Couldn't get my hands on portra 800 for that day so I settled for Fuji press 1600 which dosen't match & only looks good with your subject under little tungsten lights(they seem to glow like an angel). My prints were also done at a normal and cheap minilab but they look great, they didn't screw the colour and corrected a couple of bad exposures which is all I need. So all in all I love this film and I'm going to stick with it. 5 stars all the way to Kodak & my hat off to you guys in the white coats!

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I don't know why I need it for film

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Fuji NPH400 which I don't think is as good
NPC160, I can live with it. portra 160, looks like the 400

It says "Professional" on it, so I'm cool.....

All that stuff that's on the inside of the canister.

The bottom line is that I tried Kodak 2 years ago, and was disappointed with the results. So I thought that now I could give them another chance. Ouch. On one roll, most shots were bland and grayish and just wrong, and maybe 5 of the 36 were too contrasty. Hello? What the hell kind of emulsion is this? If it was at least consistent, but geez. I have a roll of 160NC in the lab now being done, and I'm kind of hurtin' already. Last roll is the Supra 100, but I really don't care about it at this point considering how awful 400VC turned out to be.

The only Kodak I have left is two rolls of their infrared stuff, and thankfully those are not supposed to have true colours, so I'm safe.

Back to Fuji I go for anything colour. NPS160, NPH400, Reala, Astia, and Provia (Velvia is too much for me).

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Mostly Fuji NPS160.

Good grain and colour saturation.

Unsightly greenish hue. Contrast too strong for my liking.

A poor buy for its price.

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Kodak PJ400 and other mass-market ASA400 colour negs.

I didn't like it

The pictures had a greenish tinge to them, esp. those taken with a flash.

I never had to use this film since i shoot only slides. However, when my friend asked to take some potraits of him, I decided to try it out. Was dissapointed by the results and will never ever use it again.

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I don't like this film at all.

When processed, many rolls of 220 that I have shot come out with a greenish cast. In direct sunlight the results are okay, but flesh tones in shade come out very blue.

I would avoid this film for professional work until Kodak can work out consistency. This is supposed to be "vivid contrast" film, but the results are average. When shooting Fuji's NPH under similar conditions, the results are more predictable and the colors more saturated.

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Well, I tried it. It's ok. If it was in low-light situations, I think I'd rather use NHG2-800 from Fuji for my 6x7. I haven't had trouble, but it hasn't moved me.

Totally unremarkable

It acts a lot like the NHG-2-800. It may have less grain, but that really isn't the point, even with 120/220, at that speed, now, is it?

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Why?

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NHG2-800.

Not much about this product!

Yes, I cannot get anyone to make good prints from this film, including Professional labs.

I hope that some photofinishers can get their act together to make this a professionally viable product! Right now, you would be better off with just about any other film in the 400to 800 ASA category.

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