Cheap! Paid $8CND for 7 rolls at Costco. Can be over and underexposed by 1 stop and the result still looks the same.

Grain. Enhanced greens.

Although its cheap, don't bother spending the money. After one disappointing roll I had six left to experiment with so I've tried all sort of over and under exposure settings to see what worked better. When under exposed by half a stop the greens really come out which is neet when photographing things with green...shots involving no green but blue sky don't look quite right. Underexposure seems to lead to more grain. I didn't find over exposure to do much in comparison to correct exposure.

As long as the pictures are not under exposed, it is possible to get 5x7 prints but I wouldn't bother with any larger. Most of my shots with a flash didn't work out well
unless I was really close so enough light was on the subject.

The Royal Gold 400 and Superia 400 are much sharper films. If you are really on a tight budget and want the 7 roll packages take the Kodak Gold 100 instead..I wish I had.

Similar Products Used:

Kodak Royal Gold 400, Fuji Superia 400

Cheap

Flesh tones, grain

I shot this film in the same scene as the Fuji Superia 400 as well as the Royal Gold 400 and the other two were MILES above the Max 400. Everything looked green in the image and made faces look flat compared to the other two. Spend the extra money on the Royal Gold or go for the Fuji. I wouldn't trust my pictures to this film.

Customer Service

Great! They were able to answer all my questions and when they couldn't find the info they found it and called me back right away

Similar Products Used:

Fuji Superia 400
Kodak Royal Gold 400

Marketing.

Inability to produce decent photographic results.

Thank goodness I remembered what I had done... I stopped by my local flower nursery one Saturday morning to shoot some of the new blooms. I had two cameras with me: a Nikon 8008s loaded with Kodak Royal Gold 400 and a Pentax MG loaded with THIS stuff. It wasn't meant to be a "comparison shoot", I was just out for casual hobbyist-type photography. When I got the prints back I just about had a fit. I thought my MG had died and needed some kind of major repair. The MAX prints were horribly grainy and underexposed and had the worst contrast I'd ever seen. The RG prints were smooth, grainless, sharp and very contrasty. As I looked thru the prints, my misery growing deeper by the minute, I started planning to send my MG to the doctor... then, it hit me that I'd used different kinds of film. Oh, happy day! My MG lives and I will NEVER buy this film again. You shouldn't either. Skip a coffee or two and buy some real film like the Royal Gold or Superia.

Customer Service

Unknown.

Similar Products Used:

Fuji Superia 100
Kodak Royal Gold 100
Walgreen's 100

Exceptional under exposure protection without a grain penalty. The perfect film for ANY ocassion.

None

I just tried the New MAX 400 (Up to 25% callout in the upper right corner of the carded box) and the film is FANTASTIC! Sharp, clear pictures with wonderful color.
The low light pictures were much better than Fuji!!

Similar Products Used:

Gold 200 speed, Fuji 400

NONE AT ALL

Grains like ones in wheat field. Just NASTY!

I remember a commercial on this MAX stuff, and figure its probably good as they claim. Well it sucks! The grains are huge, even on a regular 4x6! I would not recommend it to ANYONE! I wixh there was a 0 star rating on here!

Similar Products Used:

None

hmmm.. none.

Very grainy, my pictures came out underexposed. The coarse grain just ruins about everything. Skintones are ugly. Probably good for taking pitch black pictures in pitch black...in other words nothing. They need a zero star rating.

real friends don't let friends buy Kodak Max 400.

Similar Products Used:

fuji films

You can buy this anywhere.

This film is terrible. Large grain, tends to overexpose. Ok if you want some cheap film for point-and-shoot. Otherwise, avoid like the plague.

It's well worth the extra $$$ for the Fuji 400. After three rolls of ruined shots, I'll never buy this film again.

Similar Products Used:

Fuji Superia 400

Speed...but speed is nothing without control.
OK for standard 4x6's but not for any larger size prints.

Far Too Grainy for enlargements;
Colors washed out.

Avoid 400+ ISO films if at all possible. You will more than likely not be happy with the results. I would recommend no faster than 200 ISO if lighting permits.

Customer Service

N/A

Similar Products Used:

None

Edge definition is very good, testimony to the fact that nowadays 400 films are really good.

Very good contrast, Superia is slightly better at it, but with slight loss of sharpness (probably due to the 4th layer that many blame on, I'm not too sure on this fact)

Grainy in grey areas. It is poor at capturing dark areas. Due to this nature, use it only for outdoors or sports where sun is bright, everything is moving fast and subjects are contrasting colors based. Indoors, HDC Plus is much better, Superia is more for nature.

> 8x10? do a quick scan for grains before you plunge in, not the 4x6 prints! look at the negatives!

A review must be subjective, look at what you are reviewing! Not what you feel, how can a film be so bad that it should never be used, most certainly a one-time test and due to poor shooting skills, bad lab, a particular lemon. Don't vent one's loss here, really try it out properly before commenting.....I had a lemon, but I don sulk over it, shot a few more and viola! not as bad as it seems...

This is certainly not on par with most other films, but for what it is intended for it certainly do it very well. Value? Definitely good value, what else to get a 400 film that only cost S$3(US$1.6). Until I can get Supra at such prices, this is the price to beat, not even Superia 400 comes close.

If you only want to shoot at 400, use Superia 200@400, HDC Plus 200@400. I have also tried Advantix 200@800. The trick is that if you want to uprate by 2 stops, add .5 stops to your exposure so that the shots will be less dark. However, if you always need bracketing to get the shots you want, dont uprate, push-process it. Any less uprating, shoot as per normal.

So far so good, I only use this film to shoot sporting events for my school. Otherwise it's always Provia100F and Superia 200.

The emergence of MAX ZOOM 800 somewhat left this film biting the dust, but till I can get Zoom 800 easily and affordably here, I still have to use MAX 400 for good value.

The first print may not be what you want, I had insisted that an initial print I receive was a lemon, I gave specific printing instructions and came out what it should. Conclusion? It's not always the film that screwed up, reviewing negatives is slightly different from slide film, one cant judge the quality from the prints, look at the negatives!

Who is this for? People who want to save $$ and yet want fast film. For those who want more quantity than quality, like my school *grin*
3 stars for what it delivered, 4 for the overall value.

(tested with 135SF f2.8 and 300L f4 IS at various apertures)

Customer Service

-

Similar Products Used:

Not exactly similar, but these are consumer films tried at 400. Superia 200, Agfa HDC Plus 200. I have tried MAX Zoom 800 and Superia 400, but not extensively, on first impressions these films are excellent for what they are intended for and more, grain for grain, rivalling the 200 films; contrast, sharpness, colors rendition.

Fast film
Warm tones if you want it
Use any time any where

Grainy at large blow ups over 8X10
blochy colours at times
large grain even at 5X7

If the Fuji superia xtra 400 wasn't around I would use it. It tends to highlight warm tones nicely. For a P&S camera no prblem using it. But I like the finer grain in the Fuji mentioned above.

Customer Service

never used

Similar Products Used:

Fuji 400
Konika 400
Fuji superia 400
Fuji superia xtra 400