{"id":9356,"date":"2013-07-21T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9356"},"modified":"2013-07-21T07:52:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T14:52:08","slug":"kodak-portra-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wkoopmans.ca\/notebook\/?p=9356","title":{"rendered":"Kodak Portra 400"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have been very impressed with Kodak Ektar\u00a0and its fine grain and how well it scans but have shied away from 400 ISO films until necessity has forced my hand.\u00a0 I’ve found it increasingly hard to find inexpensive 200 ISO film so have migrated to using cheap 400 film for my everyday shooting.\u00a0 The results from this change have been encouraging enough for me to consider trying some better more expensive 400 films like Kodak Portra.\u00a0 Many people may not realize just how much of the movies are still shot on film, for example at the time I write this no Movie has won a best picture Oscar that was not shot on film.\u00a0 The point is that despite the steep drop off of still photography on film, development and use continued on the movie side unabated.\u00a0 In 2010 they \u00a0released this formulation of Kodak Portra\u00a0400 which used the technological advancements that had been made there.\u00a0 The result as they claim is the worlds finest grained 400 ISO film and that it scans very well.\u00a0 I will take their word for it as it certainly scans well and is fine-grained I’m just not really on a quest to prove that.<\/p>\n

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I scanned this Negative at 4800 DPI on my Epson\u00a0V700\u00a0scanner producing an image 6800×4500 (32Mpixels)\u00a0 but that is stretching things into the area of diminishing returns both for the film and the scanner. At 3200 DPI the image has as much detail so there is little need to create such large files.\u00a0 Almost all the\u00a0scanned frames\u00a0produced from this roll of film have details in both the highlights and shadows.\u00a0 This produces somewhat flat files without a lot of contrast but for my digital work flow this is fine in fact it is preferable, these files allow great latitude\u00a0for manipulating them digitally.<\/p>\n\n\t\t