Color saturation, lattitude, sharpness, exc. grain for 400

choose your lab carefully

This is Fuji's gift to action photography. I routinely enlarge full frame 12x18 with virtually no grain. People find it hard to believe its a 400. Have tried the 100 and 200 but at a standard view of the enlargment there simply no differnce.

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Kodak 400's

Excellent film for shooting landscapes and weddings. I have shot professionally most of the time with this film and have had clients really love the reporduction of the colours.

Also available under another name:
Presidents Choice Film.
(sold in Loblaws, Superstore, No Frills in Canada for about $15 for 5 rolls cdn)

Excellent landscape film as well. Out of all the colour print films this is my FIRST choice.

Have not found anything serious in over 200 rolls of film.

Excellent strenghts with little to no weakness, a true no brainer professional print film that will make your clients smile. :)


Mike LePard
michael.lepard@home.com
www.members.home.net/frozenmoments
Frozen Moments Photography

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Kodak 200, 400 Gold
Kirkland 100, 200 and 400
Agfa 100
Fuji Superia 200
Kodak Ektachrome PJ 400

cheap
deep reds
super blues and greens
sharp, hard to detect grain like 100/200 film
cheap

clumpy skin tones

This film makes everything look cool and clear, but with almost (almost!) surreal color saturation. It is almost like someone just deepened all the colors, but only the dark ones. In this way, I think the film loses some of the gradual colors, but intensifies all colors, like a bright poster advertisemnt. Skin tones upon closer inspection are practically terrible- patchy skin tones with clumps of graniness- loss of smooth gradual color detail. I have not enlarged yet past 8x10, but this film is sharp- very sharp for a 400 speed film, approaching the incredible sharpness of the Kodak Royal Gold films. For the low cost and the incredible color saturation with very good sharpness (low graniness), but not for portraits, this is an excellent general purpose film. It does make travel type/ general snapshots seem snappier on paper.

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Good Color Saturation
Great Price
Great all around film

Color shifts to Blue end of spectrum

Use this film along with Royal Gold 400 on a 3 month trip in Brazil. Produced excellent color saturation. Film shifts to the blue end of spectrum so much I didn't need a Circular Polarizer. This is my preferred landscape film.

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Good information on the Website

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Royal Gold 400
Gold 400

-Value, especially in 4 packs (under $9 fro 4 rolls!)
-Fine grain
-Versatility
-Color reproduction

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I have taken up photography again after a several year hiatus. I was reluctant to use 400 speed film as my prior experience with it was poor (8-10 years ago) and it was so grainy that it looked like I had shot everything through a silica sand filter. When I got my first prints back with this film I was goggle-eyed at the quality. I blew up a family picture to 8X12 and am still amazed at the results. If I owned a point and shoot, there would be no reason to use any other film. 80% of my pictures are taken with this film. BTW, I found out about this film from this site. Keep up the good info!

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-Royal Gold 400

Great film!!! For commercial film. I love this film, it is mainly what I shoot. Colors are vibrant & beautiful, much better than any direct competitor.

None I've encounterd

Once again I love this film. It is in my camera 90% of the time. It has yet to let me down.

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Kodak 400
Kodak Royal Gold 400
Konica

-cheap cheap cheap
-sharp
-not terribly unrealistic reds like many other print films
-lots of exposure latitude

-people pics not so good

Last summer I was on a big road trip around the country and shot exclusively with a $22 point and shoot loaded with Superia 400 (in between real cameras at that point). I shot around 10 rolls in all kind of conditions, all with the one setting the Kodak Star ef afforded me. 99% of my shots turned out great. I was looking at my photo album from that summer last night and thinking how great everything turned out. Believe it or not, I have a framed photo on my wall from this camera/film combo blown up to 12x18 and it looks phenomenal. That's big for 400, right? And if you consider the resolution limits imposed by the camera, it's even more impressive for the film.

I used to buy this film because it was extremely inexpensive (you can regularly find 4x24 packs for less than $10). Then, as my eye and photo taste became more refined, I decided it was time to try other more expensive films. I thought I had reached some kind of transition and my photos weren't keeping up with my scrutiny. Then, this past weekend, I went back to Superia 400 loaded in my Elan II. This time I'm sticking with it. It's such a great versatile film. I do mostly outdoor/nature photography and this film works great for all of it. I use other film to take people pics because skin looks funny with this film - people look pasty. That could just be because I'm not good at portraiture, though. Bottom line: best film value out there.

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-Kodak 400 Gold/Max 400/Royal Gold
-AGFA HDC 400

Color saturation with this film is great, especially with the greens and blues. Pictures came out crisp and clear. I shot this film at the same time as a roll of Kodak Gold 400, and the Fuji is much better both indoors and out.

None that I could see in my limited experience.

This film turned out good pictures from an Eckerd's photofinisher. I was suprised. I shoot most of it indoors and it was much better compared to the Kodak. Outdoor use was good too. (I got a great shot of a small fountain in mid-stream). I think it is really forgiving for beginners and I recommend it.

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Kodak Gold 400, Agfa HDC 400

very saturated
cheap
400 film is getting better by spades

skin tones not so good

The main thing is the color saturation- super reds with bright blues/greens. 'Has very fine grain, too, (somewhat close to Royal Gold 400) but I have not enlarged yet.
Forget about portraits, either skin looks washed out or (mostly) you begin to see patchy skin-not a smooth gradation, arms look like they have huge veins and blems and sharp facial features protrude. Nature, stills, and buildings are fine. Stay with Royal Gold 400 for people stuff, Fuji Superia 400 for saturation.

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Reds! Blues! Greens!
400
sharp

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I can't believe that this film is so cheap- similar to store brand films.
This film can perform and is very fine/sharp. I can tell the difference from gold 100, but not by much. The reds are incredible, saturated, but not so much that it is too exaggerated. The blues are also great. It feels like slide film with its bright colors and contrast-makes my prints sing. Previous (older) Fuji print film lacked the reds and didn't look 'real', but after two quick rolls, this is by far my now favorite general purpose film. I'll save the Royal gold for special stuff and skin tones, but Superia 400 has the goods for all my point and shoots and my SLR zoom lenses. This film is that good- sharp with saturated colors. Skin tones are a little on the red side, though so not perfect. I love the colors, though- real, probably a bit exaggerated, but not overpowering- a mix of fine, but not superfine grain and incredible red, blue saturation. Best shots were of scenery, not people.

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kodak and fuji and agfa