I really love Kodak Porta 400 - the colours are so beautiful. It's a perfect choice for portraits, fashion, landscape photography. The 400 ISO is enough to shoot in lower light conditions.
Good value for money from this film. Great colours and results.
I've used FP4 on and off over the past 20 years but never stuck with it. I decided to make the decision and shoot at least 4 rolls in a row to get more of an idea how it sits with me.
It depends... sometimes, fine, other times blown out. But when you get it right.... it's great.
Well I reckon so to the obvious is it worth £15 or not question, when there are plenty of cheaper films.
Lovely tones along with a nice bite of contrast and pretty sharp straight off the scans so only a minor tweak or two needed under the hood.
Found these awesome stickers in the clearance section and loved them so much that I bought two of them! One set is already on my fridge and the others will adorn the backs of my SLR’s.
I can never resist buying stickers with my film and this one doesn’t disappoint! Fantastic design and quality as always.
Got this on sale and brought with me on a trip to Istanbul, Isle of Wight and around my city. After using Gold, Ultramax and Colorplus for years, I’m in love! Very similar to Gold without compromising cool palette.
Amazing in overcast weather. Also great for landscapes from a further distance, especially if using zoom.
Would definitely recommend as a step up for a beginner!
Pics were taken using Yashica EZ Zoom
Shot four or five rolls of Lomo Purple now, and I still absolutely love it!
These photos were from my first time shooting it at 400 iso. They were shot on a blindingly sunny day in a very green landscape, but I was still stunned by how saturated and vibrant the results were.
I have shot it more recently on a very overcast day, and I still love the results but they're very different and much moodier. Overall I'd recommend shooting a higher iso to take advantage of the increased effect, and save it for a sunny day!
Really great film, obviously a bit unpredictable but overall beautiful. Worked best for us with high exposure shots, outside etc. Would buy again if we wanted spiral vibes
I bought a bundle of both 120 and 35mm - so far I've only shot the latter. I tried it on a variety of subjects, and actually really liked the results! Not something to use every day, but fun to get the orange skies (like a Saharan dust storm or Blade Runner 2049) along with red things coming out blue. Looking forward to trying the 120 roll.
This is really good for bright light and excentuating golden hour. Great for bright light
I had not used this film before. I quite like it although it is quite contrast but that suites my style of photography
I picked up a roll of this in 120mm because I was curious to see what it was like for myself after reading a lot of mixed reviews. It turned out to be ok for me. I shot it in a Lubitel 166b and I used a light meter so I could get my exposures correct, maybe that is why I had good results. It does give a retro feel to the photos, like you are using old film or something but perfectly acceptable results. I read the technical sheet that is on the Harman Phoenix website and it does give specific scanning instructions for Noritsu, Fuji and Epson scanners. I scanned them on an Epson v700 as positives and then inverted them in photoshop as suggested and that gave better results. All in all I think it's an ok film.
Give the film some good colourful scenes and you get some nice shots. Not so much for duller days where it becomes more black and white. To me it feels like there is a bit of under exposure on the dull scenes.
A lovely film - as expected produced saturated greens so took it with me on a walk in the gardens. A nice amount of contrast with rich colours. Will definitely use again.
A really fun, experimental film - loved the unexpectedness of not knowing what the photos would look like. Great for a mix of landscape and street photography. Would definitely pick up another roll!
The good points: it's reasonably cheap comparatively, and even cheaper if you buy through AW and collect the wonder points! At ISO 200 it's good for general outdoors in good light and not too bad indoors with good light and/or flash. The grain is ok and quite pleasing on the outdoor well lit pictures I took. The colour rendition was really good on the sunny outdoor pics and all the colours were punchy and accurate.
The not so great: some of the pics taken indoors were very grainy in a not very attractive way and crunchy. I didn't find it great for low light.
The film was shot using a Canon 1000fn with an EF 24mm 2.8. Overall it's a good film stock and I would definitely buy and use it again. The two remaining rolls are currently in two point and shoots belonging to the grandkids so I'm looking forward to seeing their results 😀
This film did not turn out how I expected, however as a photographer who likes to experiment and take photos that aren't particularly true to reality colour wise, I am happy to keep this as a regular film stock in my supply
loved this film its so beautiful and exciting not knowing how the colours will appear
Always like using this film, works better in brighter conditions but good overall.
Great roll of film, always come back to it.
I wanted a film I could use to take photos at night on a recent trip to Paris and this film did not disappoint! Great for evening shots and a really nice grain too. Beautifully developed by AW too!
This was my first time shooting this film, and I got some mixed results. If you shoot the right subject and nail the exposure, the results can be stunning. If you shoot in bright conditions and possibly overexpose, the results are disappointingly grainy and seem to lose tonal range. I am not convinced about the very wide exposure latitude.
I was pleasantly surprised how good this film is.I was surprised how fine the grain is when developed in pyrocat HD.I have printed some images in the darkroom and they showed excellent tonality.Overall positive experience.
Got this film in a mystery box, thought it might be good around Christmas, but then didn't shoot much around Christmas. As a film it is very hit and miss, sometimes in well lit scenes the patterns don't really add anything.
I can see it working better for indoor photography, probably with a flash and a dark background, but unless you get the balance right the effect can be underwhelming.
