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In Reply to: What's your favorite print film for general purpose use? posted by Tim P on September 1, 2002 at 10:28:14:
I'll stick to substance here. I use Kodak Max 400 for travel photography as I like the latitude and the vivid colors, high contrast and saturation I get. Pictures with "pop" that look like postcards. For more subtlety in colors and contrast I use Fuji Superia 400. For portraits or people pictures I would use Portra in the normal color version. The vivid color version of Portra is too snappy. Underwater I use Fuji 800 Pro as it handles the excess blue better.I have found that my preferences have shifted over the years as the film formulations have evolved, and to some extent as I changed gear. I just recently got a Nikon N80, and have no depth of experience with it and the new AF lenses with different films. The usage listed above was with my FE-2 with some older Series 1, Tamron SP, Nikkor AI, and Sigma lenses. It's really a try it and see issue, so you'll have to get out and just shoot a bunch of shots under similar conditions and see what you like. I use a McBeth-Gretag color chart to evaluate lens coloration. If you do that, you need to ask the lab to print with the compensation turned off, as the computer in the processor will "fix" things for you and you won't know where you are.
I have found that I prefer Fuji printed on Fuji paper and Kodak printed on Kodak paper, so I use different labs depending on what I'm using. A lot of smaller labs may not have a channel set up for the less common pro films and that will really skew your results. You need to ask about their set up before you drop off your film.
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