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Your favorite CHEAP color print film?


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Fuji Superia 200 is a perfect "all-round" film and cheap, especially in multi-packs. Also its 400 and 800 ASA variants are excellent choices. If you want perfect color-neutrality and the ultimate sharpness, Fuji Superia Reala 100. I never really liked the standard Kodak Gold or equivalent films (though their professional Portra range is very good). Recently I could buy a stock of original German Agfa Professional 200 film at as good as no cost.

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I find Fuji Superia very good if I'm going straight from negatives to prints. If I need to scan the negatives, I find Superia very difficult to work with in terms of controlling the colour casts during scanning. I can never get the colours to look natural, even for outdoor lighting conditions.

 

In Singapore, we have a type of Kodak film called Kodak Ultramax 400. Not sure what the equivalent is elsewhere because I've not heard it mentioned by anyone before, but it's as cheap as Superia and it scans pretty well. It tends to overdo the magentas, but what I do is to white balance the image during scanning such that skin tones look pretty normal, and later dial back the remaining magenta cast in Lightroom or Photoshop. The result looks pretty acceptable to me, though I much prefer using Fuji Pro 400H if I can afford it.

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Another vote for Fuji Superia 400 and 800. I use one or the other pretty well all the time (unless I decide to splash out on some Portra as a treat). But I also echo what Photokalia says -- I have mine scanned from neg to CD at a pro lab and there does seem to be some colour shift with Superia - nothing that can't be readily corrected in PS, however.

 

I also find Superia great in mixed light -- as long as there is some natural daylight in the mix, it seems to handle just about anything.

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