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Response to If only adults trusted the lens like kids...

from Jerry Trapp (jtrapp@kcnet.com)
Martin,

There are no "consumer equivalents" to these films. All of the pro portrait films [e.g. Fuji NPS (their 160 speed) and NPH (their 400 speed) as well as the entire Kodak Portra line] are lower contrast films that have generally been tweaked to give pleasing skin tones (a gross oversimplification, but oh well). Compared to consumer films, they are generally less saturated (the Portra VC pair being the noted exception here), and the lower contrast means more subtle gradation into highlights, shadows, etc.

IMO, these films proof on Kodak Royal just fine; the local lab I use works with Royal exclusively for color work and I've been more than plesed with the outcome. The caveat here, of course, is that the same combo in the hands of the wrong lab can look hideous! I used to use a close chain lab for proofing but got tired of having my low saturation films printed with so much color dialed in that colors threatened to bleed off the paper!

Assuming that it's appropriate protocol for this new forum, I'd suggest that you browse the "film" section of the photo.net Q&A archives; there have been some incredibly thorough discussions of these films over the past year or so over there, with lots of detailed info from Scott Eaton, the "resident" lab, film and paper expert.

(posted 8817 days ago)

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