Portra 800 has become my default indoor available light/flash film. I use 160 NC outdoors and Portra 800 indoors. I acutally prefer 800 to the 400NC (35mm) which I really don't like at all. I am stunned that this is an 800 speed film. I actually shoot it at 640, but it has a great deal of exposure latitude. I had some shots where my flash did not fire in a very dark room and my lab was able to get perfectly acceptable exposures anyway.
I think the colors are very nice with 800. Maybe somewhere between 160 NC and 160 VC in terms of saturation. The grain has a nice, soft impressionistic feeling to it.
Try it, its really nice :-)
Michael Cross
Dan Scott wrote:
On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, at 04:36 PM, Bruce Dayton wrote:Related question--Portra 800? Anyone have any comments about it? Lately I've been using Max 800 instead of Superia 800, but Portra 160NC has displaced my other print films and I'd like something similar.So, to actually talk about something on topic for a bit. I just recently received from B&H some Kodak Portra 400 UC and some Agfa Ultra 100. I haven't had a chance to shoot either one yet but was curious if anyone else has any reportsThanks, Bruce
Dan Scott
