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I know some of you out there use color negative sheet film for landscapes. I was thinking it might be the ticket for high contrast situations or when I have to make each shot count (more lattitude than chromes) Fuji NPS seems to be popular, but what about the Kodak Portra VC 160? Or any other brands?THe other thing I am concerned about is the reciprocity shifts during long exposures. I remember seeing the film data sheet for VPC and VHC and for multi-second exposures, it said NR, for Not Recommended. Can you shoot today's color neg films at 2-20 seconds and still get decent color?
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-- Todd Tiffan (newhope@4dv.net), February 20, 2000
Todd:I used to shoot alot of VHC... then shot with Kodak Pro100. I think the higher contrast Portra film is pretty similar to Pro100, and it had better reciprocity characteristics than the old VPS and VHC. With all of these films, I got my best results when rating them at 2/3 stop slower than Kodak. Haven't used NPS in the field, but keep waiting for it in Quickload to try.
-- Glenn C. Kroeger (gkroeger@trinity.edu), February 21, 2000.
Todd: I do not own a large fomat camera, but I am looking at getting one before summer get's here. At that time I will be trying out differ'nt films. Anyway, the reason I wanted to give you a response was to tell you that I've used KODAK PORTRA 160 VC in many differ'nt enviorments. Even though last time I was up in the Pacific Northwest I shot mostly with FUJI PROVIA 100 & ASTIA 100, I did test out some PORTRA 160 VC, up to 10 seconds, with great results. It's 35mm film that I was using with a NIKON F5 system. I'm not sure how differ'nt the make up of 35mm vs 4 x 5, but the 160 VC in 35mm is pretty good stuff ***IF*** you need negative print film. GOOD LUCK!
-- David R. Williams (David.R.William2@JSC.NASA.GOV), February 21, 2000.
Try Agfa Optima 100. I find it very satisfactory, besides being cheaper. I haven't used the new Agfa Optima II yet, but it's supposed to be even better.
-- Dick Deimel (bbadger@aol.com), February 23, 2000.