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Fast Colour Film?

  • 19-10-2009 5:13pm
    #1
    Miguel_Sanchez
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    What's the fastest readily-available colour film out there?

    1600 ASA seems to be the fastest I can find.


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  • #2
    DaireQuinlan
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    Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »
    What's the fastest readily-available colour film out there?

    1600 ASA seems to be the fastest I can find.

    That's pretty much it, superia 1600. I think portra 800is a vastly superior film though, even shot at 1600. I've never gotten on with fuji's print film offerings.


  • #3
    Miguel_Sanchez
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    Cheers.


  • #4
    kumate_champ07
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    theres also fuji press 1600, tho they might be discontinuing it now like the 800 version, I dont think many people bother with high iso color film anymore as much as with b&w.

    Im curious to see what fuji provia 400x looks like when pushed .5-1 stop, would be nice with f1.2/f1.4


  • #5
    DaireQuinlan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,713 ✭✭✭DaireQuinlan


    kumate_champ07 wrote: »
    theres also fuji press 1600, tho they might be discontinuing it now like the 800 version, I dont think many people bother with high iso color film anymore as much as with b&w.

    Im curious to see what fuji provia 400x looks like when pushed .5-1 stop, would be nice with f1.2/f1.4

    Yeah I've been tempted to try pushed Provia 400x before, there are some nice examples on flickr of people having done it succesfully, including 2 stops to 1600 ... http://www.flickr.com/search/?s=int&ss=2&w=all&q=provia+400x+pushed+1600&m=text

    All in all though I prefer just shooting the stuff at box speed. Its a gorgeous film, and I've ruined enough rolls of it shooting it normally or x-processing it without trying further experimentation :)

    -edit-
    And yeah, with regard to fast colour film. It was never particularly great at the best of times. Even as a committed film shooter, If I wanted to shoot high-iso colour I'd probably sigh quietly and go digital...


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