Although I am a heavy digital user, I still respect the aesthetics and design of classical cameras, not for themselves, but as a photographer's tool. Lakewood Fence Company

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Any you can think of

This film was bought on the Gold Coast for over $12 AUD. The Gold Coast has nearly run out of film completely due to the rise of digital cameras over film. I loaded this film into my Leica MP and shot my 36 shots throughout the day of my family's vacation.
Finding a place to develop film here at the Gold Coast is another story completely but let me say that it was a horrible experience.
Once developed, took four days, I opened the packet of photos not knowing what to expect. Let's be frank here. This film is s$&t!!!!!
Do not buy.
Thank you.

Customer Service

Horrible

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Nothing similar

Saturation, sharpness, price.

Grain, inadequate rendition of subtle hues.

The lab I use gives me this stuff, and I started using it because (a) I was unhappy with the development of Kodak Portra where I live, (b) I had piles of it lying around everywhere, and (c) the best lab convenient to me uses Agfa equipment. 'Seemed like trying it would be worthwhile. I have a mixed evaluation. The color saturation is fairly intense, the film has excellent exposure latitude, and its fairly sharp. However, it is extremely grainy--I mean, extremely: you can produce "vintage" looking photos without meaning to. Do NOT use this for photographing people with ruddy complexions--it makes them look like life-long drunks, all red and blotchy. Do not use it for subtle colors. My guess is that this was formulated for Uncle Joe to take vacation pictures and Granny to get good shots of Little Tommy's birthday. If most of your shots contain an average array of colors and hues (and the people you care about don't come from ruddy stock), you'll probably be happy. Otherwise, you really have to learn the films weaknesses and accomodate them in setting up shots.

Customer Service

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Fuji Superia

color saturation bargain price I've gotten 29 exposures from a roll of 24!

graininess not as sharp as Fuji

This is a follow-up review. After using this film more and more, its faults become more and more noticeable. Namely, the grain. Critical sharpness is not quite there when compared to Fuji Superia X-tra 400 or Kodak High Definition 400 (I know the High Definition costs a lot more, but the Fuji is comparably priced). Also, I previously wrote that skin tones are warm and smooth, but now I think they are a little too warm. Faces come out orange far too often. Ironically, this problem was most severe when I had the film printed on an Agfa machine. But lest I be too harsh, I still think this stuff is far preferable to Kodak Max, and I would use it once in a while if I had it on hand.

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Fuji Superia X-tra, Kodak High Definition, Agfa Vista 200, Kodak Max

rich color saturation cheap

visible grain

I bought a 6-pack of Agfa Vista 400 for $9, which works out to $1.50 a roll. Bargain priced, for sure. This is a very good quality film - very saturated colors and sharp. I think the color is the strongest point of Vista 400. I photographed my friends who were wearing some very unique, bright colors - royal blue and a warm green, and the pictures reproduced those colors so accurately. Skin tones are also very smooth and pleasing. I find that this film has a somewhat warm, golden bias to it. Many people like to compare this film to Fuji Superia X-tra 400. While Agfa Vista has its unique strengths, it doesn't quite beat Fuji in my book because Vista has a visible grain, even in daylight exposures. It's not an ugly grain, but it's there. And since in my area Fuji Superia X-tra can be had at almost the same price as Agfa Vista, I opt for the Fuji. However, those who don't like the cool bias of Fuji have a great alternative in Agfa.

Customer Service

I received an informative email response when sending them questions via their website.

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Fuji Superia X-tra 400, 800, Fuji Press 800, Kodak HD 400, Kodak Max, Fuji Reala, Kodak Portra

Inexpensive, great color, fine grain. very sharp

Not quite as good as Fuji's ISO 400

(Note: This review is on Walgreens Studio 35 400 film-same film, just packaged for Walgreens in a different box.) This has to be a great film-it's sharp, gives you nice colors, it's not grainy, it's got nicely saturated colors, and it's cheap, too! Next time you're at Walgreens, why not give this film a try-it's only $3 (or 2 rolls for $5!)

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Kodak MAX (400 & 800), Fuji Superia 400 (old and new) & 800, Agfa Vista 800

Small grain. Good brightness.

Need to overexpose this film in overcast conditions, more than products like Kodak Royal Gold 400 Green colors to me are dull in this film.

This film performs well in bright sunny conditions. However in overcast condition, the film appears to perform as a lower iso film. Like a ISO370 or something. This may just be the film processors experience will developing this film. I not sure.

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Kodak Royal Gold 400 Fuji NPH

Great price and great quality

Can't think of any...

I think this whole business of film reviews is bogus. Ask ten people to rate the same film and you will get ten different answers. Proof of this can be had by looking at reviews posted on this site regarding the Polaroid 35mm High Definition color print film (in fact it is Agfacolor vista packaged by walmart in the usa and sold with the polaroid name on it) relative to the Agfacolor Vista films. The latter gets rave reviews while the former gets a mediocre rating at best. Go to Polaroid's web site and they don't even acknowledge that they produce and market a 35mm color print film. The lesson here is to take all of these reviews with a grain of salt. If there are a large number of reviews that all pretty much say the same thing then it's a good bet the film is pretty much what they say it is. If there are only a few reviews or many reviews with a broad spectrum of opinions then try a couple of rolls of the film and judge for yourself what you think. Having said that it will now make the point that I do like the Agfacolor vista 400 film (at least the polaroid/walmart incarnation of it). Honestly I can't tell the difference between this film and the Fuji Superia X-Tra 400 I commonly use. I think they are both great films and you can't go wrong with either. I generally go with the Agfacolor (polaroid/walmart incarnation) because it costs less and because I do not like the greenish tints you get from the fuji films when you elarge the prints.

Customer Service

Via the web they were very responsive to my emails.

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Fuji Superia X-Tra 400

Color saturation. Not high contrast.

I can't find 36 exp. rolls.

For me, it's the best 400 ISO consumer film on the market today. Very good contrast and saturated colors. It isn't grainy.

Customer Service

:O

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Fuji Superia 400 X-Tra (too much contrast). Kodak Gold 400 (too much grain).

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Grain, color

I don't know what the previous users are talking about. I bought a brick (20 rolls) of this stuff and found it to be the worst in the world. VERY Grainy, with washed out colors. I thought it was me. But I used this on my Canon (28-70mm L USM lens), my Leica M4-2 (Summicron 35mm/f2 Asph) and my Hassy (Zeiss 80mm) systems. These are some of the best lenses ever made, each used with a tripod and I still got horrible photos.