Fantastic film! The colors are awesome, especially the warm colors. Enjoyable grain. Really really happy with it!
I always look for quality in my pictures, Ive been shooting film for almost 15 years and Portra 400 is the best film ive ever used, the colors come out crisp and clear, I use a Canon A1 and a lomography LCA to shoot film, of course I love my Canon A1 better and this film is just great, I shoot portrait and all my clients just love how the film quality looks.
My girlfriend and I have been shooting digital and film photography for the last couple of years and have yet to be let down by the quality of Kodak products. Popped a roll into a Canon ae-1 and away we went. Had a few rolls developed by an online lab, they uploaded digital negatives and the shots were stunning and vibrant. The color effect is just something so unique that is difficult to achieve in the day and age of digital sensors. Overall great experience, from purchase to prints.
I just recently decided to get into casual, travel photography as a hobby and picked myself up a Canonet ql17 GIII. This film came highly recommended from pretty much anyone I asked and I can see why. Just got my first roll developed and printed and it looks awesome. I love the color and overall look of this stuff. This is a blast.
Amazing film. Awesome dynamic range when properly exposed. Kodak certainly has a look to it and in this case its a portrait-specific look: tends to render blues as warmer/greener than they are, and to subdue greens and variations within flesh tones so I wouldn't necessarily recommend it for landscapes, but then people have used it for that. It's not as extreme as pro 400H in it's bias as a portrait film though. Maybe halfway between. Seems reluctant to make purples as compared to Fuji film but that could just be me.
Feature Product
- World's finest grain high-speed color negative film Ideal for scanning with extrordinary enlargement capability.
- Beautiful, natural skin tones and superb color reproduction.
- Optimized sharpness and distinct edges with fine detail.
Description
The PORTRA 400 is the world's finest grain high-speed color negative film. At true ISO 400 speed, this film delivers spectacular skin tones plus exceptional color saturation over a wide range of lighting conditions. For years, professional photographers have preferred Kodak PROFESSIONAL PORTRA Films because of their consistently smooth, natural reproduction of the full range of skin tones. In that same tradition, the new PORTRA 400 Film is the ideal choice for portrait and fashion photography, as well as for nature, travel and outdoor photography, where the action is fast or the lighting can't be controlled.
Simply amazing. If your not willing to spend 3k on a digital camera get this film. Looks better what more can I say?
I have gone through 3 of these 5-packs in the past year. I love this film, great color and great contrast. I use this in my Pentax K1000. Highly recommend.
I still shoot film, and this stuff is seriously among the best ever made. Amazing latitude, you can under or over expose it a large amount and it holds up. The grain is so fine, the images look like silk when properly exposed and the colors are stupendous. If you take a camera out in tough conditions and shoot wide open, this is the film for you too. Long live film.
I have shot about 20 rolls of this stuff, so this review has been long in the making. And my final word is: Kodak Portra 400 is a really great film. It's not too punchy, it's not too muted, it's very accurate reproducing colors, and has GREAT latitude. Accidentally overexposed three stops? No problem, you most likely got the shot. Set the ISO to 1600? Don't worry about it. Don't even push the film. It will be fine, with little extra grain. This stuff is EXCELLENT, and amazing for portraits! Use this film along with a low-light lens like an f/1.4, set it to f/2 or under, and underexpose a stop or two, and you will get DREAMY portraits.
I give it 4.5 stars, because I wish it was just a little bit more punchy, but that is a very minor complaint (and I complain too much.) I'll just mark it with 5 stars.
Really great film. I’m new to film so I think this is a really great film for someone who is a beginner like myself. It has great coloring for both landscapes and portrait photography. Isn’t that great in low light but that was to be expected. Overall really happy.
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