Kodak MAX Zoom 800 Print Film
Kodak MAX Zoom 800 Print Film
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[Jul 31, 2000]
Joe Ogiba
Professional
Strength:
Great saturated colors with fine grain and sharpness for its speed.
Weakness:
None for its speed. The best travel print film for cameras with slow zoom lenses.I used it in a Pentax PZ-1 with Tamron 28-300 zoom. I purchased 60 rolls @$1.75ea incl tax in 96exp 4 packs. Similar Products Used: Kodak, Agfa and Fuji 400. |
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[Sep 10, 2000]
Kyle Gorman
Expert
Strength:
Fine grain for 800
Weakness:
None An extremely big improvement over the previous version. Do not make the mistake of buying the old stuff; it is awful. This new zoom max 800 is a very fine choice of film for overall photography, candid shots inside the home with flash. Customer Service None Similar Products Used: Kodak 1000, Kodak Gold 100 and 200 |
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[Oct 25, 2000]
Mike Greene
Intermediate
Strength:
Price
Weakness:
Color rendition It's a wicked cheap film that can be found anywhere, processed anywhere, and will give passable results. Don't bother enlarging past 5x7, although grain was surprisingly good at 800, 1600, and even 3200. I haven't yet made up my mind about the colors, particularly green and blue. You can't go wrong for $2 a roll, though. Customer Service none Similar Products Used: Kodak, Fuji high speed |
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[Oct 23, 2000]
John Shaeffer
Casual
Strength:
--Fine grain for a fast film.
Weakness:
None Kodak has a winner here. It is basically Gold 200 film at a higher speed. I have used this film for manually focused closeups, and it shows no grain. I've used it for available light indoor shots and the results were amazing. My wife has used it in bright sunlight for photographing critters in flight--it is fast enough to capture these kind of shots, without sacrificing detail and contrast. If I had to make a choice on one film I would use to meet any occasion, it would be Max Zoom 800. Best yet, you can buy it anywhere for a reasonable price. Customer Service N/A Similar Products Used: Every consumer film out there--Agfa, Konica, Fuji, Kodak, Mitsubishi |
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[Nov 20, 2000]
R.D. Kenwood
Intermediate
Strength:
Excellent at 400 (better, I think, than Royal Gold 400). Also excellent at 200. This film loves "overexposure."
Weakness:
Pretty mediocre at 800, and really poor at 1600. A flexible film. I like it best rated between 250 and 400 (again, I think it's both brighter and tighter at 400 than Royal Gold 400 is - which makes Max Zoom a cheap alternative to RG), although it works OK at 800. Similar Products Used: Fuji NHG II, which is sort of not comparable. NHG II is a finer-grained, lower-contrast film with accurate (not bright) colors and extreme pushability. |
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[Dec 18, 2000]
Larry Comstock
Intermediate
Strength:
Color seems to be good.
Weakness:
GRAIN, GRAIN, GRAIN! Everyone that I have had process this film says the same thing — lots of grain. Maybe I'm doing something wrong but every roll of the new "Zoom" 800 has been very grainy. I am using a Pentax IQ Zoom camera. I liked the old MAX 800 much better. Similar Products Used: Kodak Max 800 |
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[Dec 31, 2000]
Clarence DeMoore
Intermediate
Strength:
Fine grain for 800 speed film, snappy colors.
Weakness:
Snappy colors, tolerates underexposure poorly; safer to rate at EI 640 than 800 Kodak is giving themselves a bad reputation by clearing out existing stock of "old" Max 800 by putting it on store shelves in the "new" Max Zoom 800 boxes. If therr isn't a large numeral "3" on the film cannster or numerals 800-3 on the edges of the processed negatives strips then Kodak stuck you with the old stuff. The new Max Zoom 800 is an excellent 800 speed film, all 3 of Kodak's current crop of 800 speed films are breakthough films but each has different color balance and saturation. Similar Products Used: Portra 800, Supra 800, Fuji NHG |
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[Dec 30, 2000]
Ryan Visima
Expert
Strength:
Nothing
Weakness:
Extremely washed out colours. Horrible grain. The grain on this film is interolerable. Blue skies are washed out and rendered grey. Everything about this film is total trash. Nearly every Kodak film I've tried is pretty bad (especially their APS stuff), but this is by far the worst. Kodak makes some of the crappiest consumer films I've ever seen. Customer Service N/A Similar Products Used: Fuji HG 1600 |
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[Mar 30, 2001]
Eric Jordan
Intermediate
Strength:
Easy to find. High speed.
Weakness:
Weak grain. Little saturation. Grainy blacks. This film is just for p&s zooms with no thought of enlarging beyond 4x6. The sharpness is not their. The grain can be seen even in 4x6 prints. Customer Service Great web site. Similar Products Used: Royal Gold 1000 |
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[Apr 28, 2001]
Wade Dwyer
Intermediate
Strength:
I suppose speed, but better choices available. At least Kodak can't do much worse.
Weakness:
Grain, grain, grain, grain, did I mention grain? I have to say, that having no particular "film bias", that Kodak MAX 800 is horrible. It does not compare to any other Kodak films I have used. When used as suggested by Kodak (slow telephoto lenses), the results were horrible. The grain in this film is absolutely disgusting while I have experienced consistent underexposure (~1/2 stop) from several differnt cameras in many different lighting situations. I recently decided to give this film a second (maybe 8th) chance and bought a "trial roll" of 12 exposures at a promotional price of $1.99 only because all other film above ISO 100 was sold out in the area due to heavy traffic at State College. I deliberately overexposed by 1/2 stop in effort to eliminate the God-awful grain. Those looking for a good cheap 800 speed film should look at Fuji Superia. For those not truly needing an 800 ISO, try RG 400, Gold 400, or Superia 400. Not what I have come to expect from Kodak. Similar Products Used: Various Kodak and Fuji 400-800 |