The Kodak Portra 400 is Kodak’s midspeed film from the Portra series sitting inbetween the Portra 160 and Portra 800. It is also the more expensive ISO 400 color negative film in the Kodak lineup, the cheapter alternative being the Ultramax 400.
Processing (C-41) and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.
Over the months it has become a bit of a thing for me to take a picture here with different films to see how they handle artificial lighting. The light in here is pretty constant and there even is a railing I can use as support.
It might be a good idea to have a look at the Fuji 200 article again, the Portra result looks way better to me.
Telling you that the Portra 400 is a good, high quality ISO 400 film is probably no news to you. Compared to the Ultramax 400 the grain is supposed to be lower and the colors less punchy Having shot both films I tend to say there is some truth to that, but as was already the case comparing Gold 200 to Color+ 200 I wouldn’t mind using either film, availability is once more the bigger issue.
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have you tried the classic overexposing 1-2 stops with portra 400?
This one was metered as ISO400, no general overexposure.
I do very much like the general clarity and detailed rendering, but I don’t think the greenish colors are for me.
I do really appreciate your reviews of various film stocks, especially since you visit the same locations with different film stocks to make for easier comparison.
What did you use to scan the negs, as scanners have disappeared.
I used to developed c22 and c41 negs back in 75 in a pro lab, missing the great summer of 75, grrr.
I am not scanning myself, every one of these articels there is a note at the beginning where or by whom it was scanned. In this case urbanfilmlab.