Kodak Portra 800 Color Negative Film – 120 Format, Pack of 5 Rolls, ISO 800 – Fine Grain, Natural Skin Tones – Medium Format Film

Yes, Portra 800 is the most expensive film on the market, but it is undeniably one of the best colour films ever invented. In the days before digital, no ISO 800 film was even close to being this good, so it just shows that film technology has kept progressing. Portra 800 has amazingly fine grain for the ISO. Beautiful creamy colours, perhaps slightly muted compared to the most vivid films, but great in most situations - and of course wonderful skin tones. Works beautifully in all conditions. Any photo lab can develop it with no problems, it's a perfect standard C41 film to them. Genuinely ISO 800. I know some people claim it's not ISO 800, but it is. Of course you can shoot it at ISO 400 as well, it has wide exposure latitude so you can't go wrong really. However, if you don't need ISO 800, you may as well save money and use Portra 400.

I'm using this in a Pentax 67 and it produces such nice colours with a low grain. Finding it difficult to go back to digital....

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This film gave me great results for portraits rated at 800 and 1600 with regular development, no pushing. It is supposedly an "older" emulsion than the 160 and 400 which are out now... but I preferred the images shot on this film compared to ones taken using Portra 160 on the same day/location etc. The grain is stronger, but the colours are better with 800 so overall I kinda like it... didn't shoot any 400 at the time so have no comparison to make between them here. Why 4 stars? The first and most obvious reason is the cost. This is insanely priced, yeah it is a niche film... but even so. The price is not justified unless you REALLY need 1600 iso and don't want to push Portra 400 or shoot it at -2. Which leads me to question why this film is really even still around, Portra 400 can do 90% of this film can do and do it cheaper. Another time I would probably just shoot 400 at 1600 and push a stop to save some money. It is expensive enough not to simply "keep in my bag for emergency use" and offers no clear advantage over Portra 400 which is much more affordable. I think it is a good idea to get EITHER 400, or 800 - not both. They are similar enough, 400 edges slightly for its quality, 800 edges slightly because you have ISO 1600 without push if you need it, negatives are a bit washed but scanned just fine no shadow detail loss. I would say overall Portra 400 is the one to get, you have ISO 100-800 without push, and 1600 easily achievable with one stop push, easy enough to use in studio as well. Portra 160 is nice, but living in Scotland most of the time it isn't fast enough. I haven't shot it over exposed yet so cannot speak about how it looks at 200 or 400, I heard it likes more light though haven't seen this for myself.

Film was perfect, delivered fairly quickly, one roll was half unwrapped though.

Scadenza a un anno, scatola integra

Buen precio. Película en perfectas condiciones (no está caducada obviamente). se puede comprar en toda confianza. Gran película: rápida y con un grano muy bonito.

Portra 800 is to be used in a studio setting or in a 2-3000K light setting. I shot it indoors and my images were crazy warm. My mistake. Not a knock on the film, just a tip in case you wondered. Beautiful grain, and so sharp! I use this film on an RZ67 and ProTL 645, and love it! Nice, clear, warm tones, extremely fine grain, and such a distinguished look. :) My absolute favorite film, except for price. Completely worth it, though.

粒子は細かいですが、フィルム感は感じられるくらいの粒子の写りで気に入って使っています。

Arrived fogged by x-ray.