Kodak Portra 400 35m 36exp Film Professional 5 Pack

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This film is mostly designed for the way it renders skin tones. If you’re photographing someone with darker skin tones, balance it out with a silver reflector. Get these new, printable film exposure guides for free and learn exactly how to set your film camera everytime!

Kodak Ektar 100 Vs Portra 400 In Greece - By Aukje - 35mmc Kodak Ektar 100 Vs Portra 400 In Greece - By Aukje - 35mmc

We're photographers who are passionate about keeping film alive for the next generation. LearnFilm.Photography is all about taking a scientific and eco-conscious approach on taking better photos on film. Get these free guides Kodak Portra is balanced to Daylight. That means that in orange lighting, it’s going to look really, really orange. To get an idea beforehand, use it alongside a digital camera and set that camera’s white balance to Daylight. Kodak Portra 400 is my go to film for all of my various medium format cameras (especially). Portra 400 is said to be sharper than Porta 160 and more saturated also. The colours are amazing for portraits without being over the top. For colour film photography I use Portra 400 film the most as I often shoot cameras at ISo 400 if working with available light for portraits. This is especially true for my analogue wedding photography but for model shoots also. I use 35mm Portra 400 for weddings with the Leica cameras as I need that extra amount of light to help minimise motion blur for moving subjects. Kodak Portra 400 is more flexible overall, which is to be expected from the best-selling color film of all time. Portra 400 is designed for use by professionals, who need a cleaner look and reliability so that they can choose the look of the final image.That said, Portra 400 handles almost anything you can throw at it. If you want to go shoot landscapes with Portra, it’s going to look great, and you can always persuade the color a touch in post (as I usually tend to do). The modern iteration of the Kodak Portra film was heavily designed for scanning. So it will translate into digital very well. Kodak Portra 800 wasn’t designed for scanning: it’s got a more classic look to it. Unlike perhaps popular believe, Kodak Ektar film can be great for portraits and skin tones. I find it works best for faces with a less red complexion and also out of direct sun. Ektar 100 saturated colours adds a nice pop to an image especially on a grey day. The super fine grain is also amazing and perhaps my favourite feature of Ektar, both 35mm and 120 versions. The price is also good which helps me like Ektar 100! I prefer the Ektar in every shot, I think. It seems warmer and smoother. I wonder whether the overexposure is making the Portra look a little harsher than it would at 400? Of course, the biggest difference between these two films is how they render skin tones – Ektar being a bit too red while Portra is famously flattering – and that’s not being tested here. Personally, Ektar is my go-to summer holiday film. I know there’s going to be enough light and I know it’s going to make sun-drenched scenes look great. I even find the slightly ruddy skin tones suit tanned (or sunburnt) subjects, making them appear slightly more so and thus evoking scenes in a manner perhaps closer to our memory of them than to reality. Being part of the professional line from Kodak, Portra is reliable and trustworthy. In my recent articles of my trip to the badlands, Portra was the main choice for color. I felt that it wasn’t going to let me down and it didn’t.

Is Kodak Portra 400 Right For Me? - The Analogue Experience Is Kodak Portra 400 Right For Me? - The Analogue Experience

Im a bit more experimental with 120 film compared to 35mm – Ektar, Lomo, Fuji 400h, Portra and a few others. For me 120 just suits trying something different. A bit of rising sun on Greek churches. Although they are different churches, the photos were taken at a very similar hour, and in the same direction. Portra 400 / Summilux 50mm Ektar / Summilux 50mm It’s common knowledge at this point that to get the best results from Portra 400, you have to over-expose by a stop or two. Having the excellent exposure latitude it does, it retains its highlights very well and gives loads of detail in the shadows. Not only that, but its color will slightly wash out giving that lovely palette everyone is crazy about right now. After shooting 13 rolls of Kodak Portra 400 I thought it was time to give Ektar a try, as was suggested by some people who read my previous posts. A couple of weeks ago I loaded a roll in my M2 with the intention to try it on my regular daily photography. But after a day or so my man and I decided on a last minute trip to Karpathos (a Greek island in the Aegean Sea) since the Dutch summer wasn’t really taking off properly. As I wasn’t sure yet on the outcome of Ektar, I took a some Portra 400 with me as well, and concluded that it was a good opportunity to compare them both. We were only in Greece for three days, so I more or less shot one day with Ektar, and one day with Portra. The weather was very much the same over those few days: clear blue skies with only a very small hint of cloud if you looked really hard.The only thing you don’t want to do with any film is underexpose as you just can’t recover the shadows that much.

Portra 400 ISO 120 Roll Film - Bristol Cameras Kodak Portra 400 ISO 120 Roll Film - Bristol Cameras

If you’re looking for film similar to Cinestill, read our blog post outlining the our favorite Cinestill alternatives! If you’re looking to achieve the Cinestill look with your digital photos, here is a round-up post of the best Cinestill presets for Lightroom. Cinestill 800TAt the high end of the speed spectrum (and higher price point), Portra 800 is the final offering from Kodak’s Portra line. Kodak Portra 400 was launched in 1998 and replaced the older 'Vericolor' emulsion in Kodak's range. Originally there were two variants of Portra: 'Vivid Colour' and 'Natural Colour' but a technical update in 2010 made the difference redundant with a new and improved film. After doing this test, I can say almost for certain that Lomo 400 is in fact Kodak Ultramax, because it is warmer and more punchy than Portra. If it were made by Fuji, the film would be more neutral or even have a cold tone to it.