Kodak Professional Ektachrome also features a signature color saturation and contrast that is often not reflected in other film stocks. Colors are rich, deep, and vivid with true-to-life skin tones. It holds a lower contrast formula to provide balance and a wide dynamic range, and it has a neutral tonal scale for greater color accuracy.
Best For: Photographers needing a stock to cater to their experimental colors, wanting a more vivid expression. When we heard that our team received a personal brand contact for Kodak, Fujifilm, etc. Our supply coordinator, Amanda, sent the film photographers some stocks to test out over the course of a weekend for launch assets. Hope you enjoyed it! Skip to content Skip to navigation. Previous Post Next Post. Kodak Professional Portra Add to cart. To Know: Many photographers rely on Kodak Professional Portra as their main go-to stock for its highly reliable, always-excellent image quality in a range of conditions.
Dynamic Range Crisp detail can be seen among every image. Low Light Compatible This is one of the fewer film stocks on the market that can actually handle low light conditions. True To Color Tones Skin tones are real-to-life and blend lovely within the picture. Kodak Professional Tri-X Before you go gung ho for the biggest negative out there, you need to factor in the economics of the film as each of the different negative sizes will chew through a different amount of film per roll.
You know how 35mm film comes in rolls of 36 frames? Well unfortunately, film at best, will give you 15 shots per roll on a camera that produces a 6 x 4. The other thing worth mentioning is that as a general rule of thumb, you can halve the medium format lens focal length to receive an approximate full-frame equivalent i.
Brown adamantly patrols the streets and highways of this stretch of coastline documenting life through the lens of various film cameras and film stocks. Brown kindly shares his insight on a handful of the cameras discussed. The Rolleiflex has significantly contributed to the romanticisation of the art of photography.
The vertical build of the camera allows a twin-lens reflex system one lens is for picture taking while the other is for the viewfinder and creates waist-level viewing through the finder, which has come to be known as a hallmark of medium format photography. Moving from 35mm cameras to this format allows a transition to older photographic traditions such as different ways of seeing and composing an image. Technically, the short superior lenses of the Rolleiflex contributed to its overall compactness and light weight no doubt a welcome change from its predecessors , paving the way for a generation of photographers who were able to handhold and quickly focus exposures on a fast-paced sidewalk.
Kodak Portra is a good choice for medium format portrait photographers, being optimised for smooth and natural-looking skintones. If ISO is too slow, there are ISO and ISO versions too, though as ever with faster films, grain becomes an issue much sooner than it does with digital sensors. This could be ideal if you're going for a strong retro vibe and you're experimenting with an old medium format TLR, for example, or one of Lomography's own cameras.
Ilford FP4 Plus is an evolution of a film that's been a favourite among scenic photographers for decades. It's an all-rounder, offering reasonable speed, good contrast and definition and pretty fine grain — though its characteristics will depend on which of many available developers you use with it.
The effect isn't quite the same as Kodak's long-gone HIE infra-red film, but Ilford SFX does have extended red sensitivity and, when used with a deep red filter, can produce attractive infra-red images. It's easier to load and handle than Kodak's film, too, needing no special handling precautions. It's slower than the 35mm Berlin Kino film with less grain and higher contrast, though as ever with black and white you can adjust the processing for different 'looks'.
Velvia might have made its reputation as a 35mm slide film, but it's also available in medium format, generally in packs of five, and while the cost of the 35mm version is pretty off-putting, the medium format version doesn't seem bad value.
At ISO 50, though, you'll be better off using a tripod. Provia is like a grown-up Velvia. It doesn't have the same super-saturated colour rendition, but it's a more restrained, versatile film that can be used for anything from portraits to landscapes to commercial work.
It does have very fine grain, smooth gradations and it's developed with the widely available E-6 process. The latent image becomes visible once the film is developed. That is, when the film is bathed in a series of solutions, triggering a chemical reaction in the crystals that renders the image visible and makes the crystals no longer sensitive to light. Developed film is called a negative, as the process inverts the light and dark tones of the image.
The negative is then scanned at a high resolution and inverted again to create positive images. The images can now be printed on to photographic paper or used digitally. Reversal or slide film is also sometimes used, which produces a positive image directly after processing.
Negative film and reversal film are still manufactured and sold today in both color and black and white. Developing film is a complex and time-consuming process, so we recommend taking your rolls to a professional film processor. Check out the image above for some of our favorite film developers in Brooklyn. Instant cameras use another type of film that is designed to develop within minutes or seconds of an exposure.
Instant film was invented by Polaroid over 70 years ago, and they are still releasing new instant cameras today.
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