New Portra

Seems I've been sleeping for a while.

I visited Kodak site today and was quite suprized to see that they updated all

the new Portra films, with tagslines such as "Film is our heritage.." "We've

said that we will support...film..." etc.

It seems Kodak has not abandoned film, and has somewhat altered its strategy,

from a rapid film-murder policy to a

lets-put-film-in-a-retirement-home-films-and-let-it-die-on-its-own kind of policy.

The most important thing is they have realised that 160VC has a little too much

contrast and a little less color than "vivid color" would demand.

They say they have lowered the contrast and increased saturation.

I've been shooting slides for a long time now, because I felt I was getting

finer grain and solid colors from Ektachrome films, but If this works now, I

might start using some negative film again.

So anyone tried the new Portra films?

There are two things that I'm specially interested in:

1.Does portra NC still look the same (only with finer grain)

2. How does VC look like now?

Any examples? (as much as I strongly believe in uselessness of consumer on-line

examples scanned on crappy scanners, I can't help but to crave for some photos)

thanks

Me too...eh? Anyone know when they will be in stores?

~hibbs

Recently discussed, although (currently) it expired to the

Uncategorized category where you'd never find it:

<A HREF="http://www.photo.net/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=00I1EF&tag=">Click here</A>.