In 2025 no one makes slide film faster than ISO100 anymore, but that wasn’t always the case. Back in the day there were several different higher ISO options available and Fujichrome Provia 400x seems to have been one of the more popular ones. As it went out of production a long time ago, today people pay up to 40 bucks for a single roll, so let’s see what it is all about.
Processing (E-6) was done at ProLab in Stuttgart, scanning was done by one of our readers via a DSLR. The pictures you see in this article are from one roll.
Fujichrome Provia 400x is not a real tungsten based film, but it is more blue than most daylight films. I actually found it to be quite versatile in different lighting scenarios because of that, as from daylight over sunset to blue hour I found it to always yield nice colors.
While I found the colors nice, the dynamic range is also somewhat limited here – a common issue among slide films. The two samples above show that quite well: the first one has been exposed for the sky, leading to a black foreground and the second one has been exposed for the foreground, leading to an overexposed sky.
I still find it said they don’t make films like this anymore.
Further Reading
- Analogue Adventures Landing Page
- Review: MS-Optics 24mm 2.0 Aporia
- Review: SLRmagic 50mm 0.95 Hyperprime
- Review: Nikon AF-S 200mm 2.0G VRI
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