sanjay_chaudary Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 <p>Hi, I recently got Kodak Portra 160, 400 and 800 films. Can portra be used for subjects other than portraits?</p> <p>thanks in advance</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daniel_mitschke Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 No, as them name indicates this is a portrait-only film. If you use it on other subjects your camera will explode. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanjay_chaudary Posted February 7, 2012 Author Share Posted February 7, 2012 <p>Thanks for the response. loved the exploding part. rotfl. :)</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mva Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 <p>If you want colours that look natural, as you remember them, you use Portra.</p> <p>If you want super colours, or modified colours, or blueish or greenish or vivid colours, you use other films.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbcarter Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 <p>I use Portra for most things I shoot (in colour). If I need a saturated look I'll move on to ektar.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john_shriver Posted February 7, 2012 Share Posted February 7, 2012 <p>I've found Portra 400NC to be a film that produces colors very very close to reality. The new Portra 400 has a little more zip (saturation), but it remains very very tasteful. It can sometimes be necessary to increase contrast in post-processing with Portra 400, but that gives you the choice of what part of the enormous dynamic range to compress (throw out).<br> The "consumer" C-41 films are all un-naturally hot with rather high saturation and contrast. That is the result of a competitive war that Fujifilm started and Kodak responded to. Current "consumer" C-41 films are very different from Kodacolor II, which was rather laid-back stuff.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donbright Posted February 9, 2012 Share Posted February 9, 2012 <p>Portra films are highly evolved films that lend themselves to versatlity. Now that Kodak has let go their digital line of camera's, and is focusing back on to film, we should see the continuance of films advancement technologically for our benefit.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_antidote Posted February 10, 2012 Share Posted February 10, 2012 <p>I think it's whatever you can get away with. It's not recommended that you shoot people with Kodak Ektar but I did this last weekend while I was hiking with my gf. Just shoot and have fun.. <br> <img src="http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6439/webxf.jpg" alt="" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heinz_anderle Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 <p>Portra 400 is an excellent all-purpose film. Portra 160 has a too soft contrast for straightforward scanning. Both films render red hues very natural, other than Ektar 100 suffering from a sort of red rampage wreaking havoc even upon slight overexposure.</p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_antidote Posted February 11, 2012 Share Posted February 11, 2012 <p>Portra 160. No corrections. <img src="http://img850.imageshack.us/img850/5155/33815025.jpg" alt="" /></p> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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