Any body know about this film? There's not much information on the Kodak web site. Has any one in this forum used them? Are they any good?

-- Fendy Tjhin (fendushi@cbn.net.id), May 24, 2002

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Another misterious kodak film. Sorry, I do not know anything about this one. I bought and used some Kodak Prophoto 400 color film , and also Kodak Academy 200b&w. Got both of those in Russia in 2000. Those two seem to be European market films sold side by side with regular Kodak profesional films but costing three times less. Were they repackaged PMC and Plus X/Tri X or something else? I have no clue. But the emulsions are very good. So probably this Pro Image is a similar deal.

-- Igor Osatuke (visionstudios@yahoo.com), May 24, 2002.

Kodak sells film under different names in different markets. You may be seeing gray-market film (privately imported from another country). Ask your local Kodak people, or perhaps Kodak.com.

-- Mark Sampson (MSampson45@aol.com), May 24, 2002.

I tried 3 rolls of ProFoto 100 last March, on recommendation of a wedding photographer. I had run out of Portra 160NC and shot it out of sheer curiosity. Since it was a present I don't know if it is cheap.

It has low contrast, muted colours and very good skin tones when printed on Royal paper. It might be similar to Ektacolor Pro Gold 160 (European designation GPX, discontinued 3-4 years ago) which I shot @100 at the time. Worth trying.
Where did you get it?

-- George (gdgianni@aol.com), May 24, 2002.

It's a film primarily available in Asian markets according to Kodak's website. I found some information on it with great difficulty a couple of years ago when I first came across it. It's designed for general and portrait work, I find it pleasant with skin tones, fine grained, and with relatively muted colours.

The special thing about this film noted on the Kodak website (And this is presumably the reason for its targeting) is that it's got an extremely forgiving nature in terms of storage. Is happy being stored relatively hot before and after exposure and doesn't mind humidity as much as other films.

It turns up here (Australia) in many pro shops as well. I first came across it in Indonesia.

-- Bruce Murphy (pack-photo@rattus.net), May 25, 2002.