.It is the best 75 dollars i have spend,my clients is so happy with the prints i get from this pearl,and when i scan my negs from Agfas wonderfull RSX 100 colourslides and/or Agfas Pan 100 B/W film on my beloved Epson 2400scanner and print it on the Epson 915 the clients is amazed. truck oil change

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Poor color quality, excessive graininess.

I was very disappointed in this film. I frequently do wildlife photography, especially birds and was very disappointed in the results from a recent trip to Costa Rica. The film is very unforgiving of underexposure, leaving a grainy photo with very poor saturation. The Fuji Superia 800 that my partner was using did far better with the same settings, even when pushed to 1600. Bright blue Magpie Jays came out slate gray, with little detail.

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Almost every other 800 and up film made.

Natural colors, true to life.Moderately fine grain for a for a high speed film. Good contrast and saturation.Can be processed by most labs.

None considering the speed of the film except a little pricy.

Needed to shoot this film under the lights at Yankee Stadium. Pushed the film to ISO 2000 and were very satisfied with the colors, detail and grain. Film seemed to have good latitude because a few of the shots were under and over exposed at least one stop and came out great.

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Reasonably fine grain, considering its speed.

Good color saturation, with relatively high contrast making it look punchy.

Doesn't push especially well, compared to Fuji NHG II, which looks better at 1600 than Royal Gold 1000 looks at 1000.

High speed films still involve compromises. The Kodak Royal Gold is brighter than the Fuji NHG II, but has more grain and higher contrast. Fuji NHG II has a bit finer grain and less contrast with more-accurate colors under more different lighting situations. They both have their uses. I think an important note in print film evaluations, is that quite a bit depends on the lab doing the printing.

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Fuji NHG II (800) both at 800 and pushed to 1600 (accurate, tighter grain, more pushable, but somewhat less saturated color).

Picture quality. Very smooth for me. Great colors.

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I used this is my Pentax IQ zoom 115G at Disneyworld at night. The night time parades, the lights at Christmas all turned out simply amazing. No grain. The pictures just jumped off of the paper. The colors were dead on. every picture turned out sharp and clear. I love this film. It's pricey, but worth it. My photo albums look great.

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fuji 800

This film is great for meetings and other events where a flash would make you look stupid and or stop the action. Also fantastic for sports and other inside events. I find that this film actually performs better under really bad flourescent lighting. LOL

My local retailer wanted $7 a roll for this film, which was a bit above my budget, however a call to B&H showed that I could get it for $5.29 per roll plus shipping and have it in 2 days or less.

Not too great with flash added for some reason, it seems to perfom better in low light.

Royal Gold 1000 is always in my case, I never leave home without at least two rolls of the stuff handy. I purchase the 24 exp box which allows me the opportunity to change films and or shoot a 12 shot event. Processing for me takes place at Sam's Club, where they do a great job and actually check out/push or whatever is needed to make the prints good.

You can check out some of my work @ http://www.csuohio.com/Photos

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Kodak Customer service always gives personal information rather than being stuck in a computer (Press 1 to hear, Press 2 to ....) You get to talk to a real person at Kodak.

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Fuji 1600 is my other film of choice, however it does not perform as well as the Kodak Royal Gold 1000 does overall.

High speed. Nice grain.
Saturated.

Can be expensive and hard to find.

This is a great film for low lighting like stadiums and auditoriums. The grain is fairly sharp for its speed. It seems more saturated than Fuji Superia 800. I have had some nice looking 8x10's made from this film. I took this film to the 1996 Summer Olympics in my birth place of Atlanta. I took some nice pictures in the Omni and on the streets.

My only complaint is that I have a hard time finding it localy and its price.

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Fuji Superia 800

high definition for the speed, some crisp photos!
grain size regular and size unobtrusive

does not break the rules of speed to colour contrast and saturation if that's what you insist on
grain blues "precipitate out" under much magnification unfavourably for portraits
quite expensive

Developed two rolls of it. I was pleased enough with its combination of speed, tolerable grain size and good sharpness to polarize my film box to Royal Gold 1000 and another 100 film. Use the 1000 in my compact, which suits the cheap optics.
I would note that under the magnifying glass this grain shows blue grain specks very obviously, which gives an unhealthy look of cyanosis in less exposed areas... but the actual physical grain is attractively fine.
This film is a good outcome of speed with sharpness and tonal tolerance, unlike Fuji SHG1600, the old Fuji800 with dubious contrast range, or the weak New Gold 800.

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