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Subject: [Leica] Which colour neg film?
From: lug at paulhardycarter.com (PHC)
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 16:34:17 +0100
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Thank you all very much for your responses - seems Portra 400 is a favourite.

Tim - can you confirm that the image your link to is shot on the old Portra 
400? Looks pretty good to me.

P.

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On 2 Jun 2011, at 16:03, Tim Gray wrote:

> On Jun 02, 2011 at 09:51 AM -0500, Gary Pinkerton wrote:
>> I've been shooting Portra 160 and 400, highly recommend.
>> Both are very good and scan nicely with great color.
>> The 400 has a bit of grain but still has good detail.
> 
> Ditto.  I've yet to use the new Portra 160, but by all accounts, it's good 
> stuff.  The previous versions of 160 were great, so the new one should be 
> even better.  If the grain increase in Portra 400 (still fine-grained) is 
> acceptable, then it's a wonderful film.
> 
> If you are interested, here's a sample of the 400 scanned on a minilab 
> scanner at 4000x6000 and resized by flickr.  If you click through to the 
> original size, you can see what the grain looks like.  I've got other 
> Portra 400 samples in my stream, most scanned at the same resolution.
> 
> <http://www.flickr.com/photos/tgray1/5473148336/>
> 
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