best c-41 color film for flowers, including macro

[paulfish4570]

work? i have to depend on you guys for the film that best replicates natural flower color. i am mildly red/green colorblind and have no clue.
negs will be scanned ...

 

[Aristophanes]

Ektar 100

I'll post a sample in the Gallery

 

[Brian Puccio]

If color really matters and you're scanning why not shoot slides (scan easier IMHO) and take a shot in the same lighting first with an x-rite colorchecker passport?

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/reviews/accessories/colorchecker-psssport.shtml

 

[kevin_v]

I haven't found a C-41 that really shouts color accuracy – like Brian said, slides are for that. However, I'm partial to Portra, because the color I get from it just seems more dynamic; Ektar makes me feel weird.

edit: Besides, I've always found it easy to fix colors in post.

 

[paulfish4570]

i have shot some ektar and portra 160. i'm not sure which i'd like best. i guess autocolor could correct color well enough for either. slide film is hard to come by and oh so expensive to process.

 

[thegman]

A lot of people seem to like Reala for flowers, very little experience of it myself though.

 

[farlymac]

A couple samples on Ektar 100. Somewhat in the shade.


Spring Pink by br1078phot, on Flickr


Cloud Mimic by br1078phot, on Flickr

PF

 

[paulfish4570]

that looks lovely ...

 

[redisburning]

I don't like the way ektar handles reds in terms of accuracy (like it aesthetically though).

if this is important, I would go with Astia and a 5500k light.

 

[paulfish4570]

the kit will have to be ultra compact and convenient. i'll be wading some, and going from boat to bank, and shooting some from a pontoon boat.

 

[Aristophanes]

the kit will have to be ultra compact and convenient. i'll be wading some, and going from boat to bank, and shooting some from a pontoon boat.

C-41, not slide film then. You'll likely have time pressures, so you'll have less time for exact metering, etc. C-41 is "convenient".

 

[kevin_v]

A couple samples on Ektar 100. Somewhat in the shade.


Spring Pink by br1078phot, on Flickr


Cloud Mimic by br1078phot, on Flickr

PF

That first one is lovely! But it's always been the yellow-green range of Ektar that just puts me at unease. Though, maybe I'll give Ektar another shot... (npi)

 

[batterytypehah!]

Paul, I read what you said in the other thread about not liking the x100 for this assignment because of the inconvenient focus in macro, but it's beginning to sound like spray and pray with a digital is the least inconvenient way to do this...

 

[Greyscale]

This was on Fuji Reala 100 in a Vivitar 35ES rangefinder


035_3 by Greyscale3, on Flickr

 

[farlymac]

that looks lovely ...

Thanks, Paul. I forgot to mention they were taken with a Minolta X-700 and Albinar 2.8/28mm Macro. Quite the performer for a third party lens. The colors on the white flowers could have been more brilliant, but the clouds were starting to take over. But they look accurate to me. Developement and scanning were done at CVS onto a Kodak CD.

PF

 

[ColSebastianMoran]

Greyscale, that's a nice image. The little Vivitar 35ES is doing a great job here.

 

[btgc]

Reala is classics. Just note - resh Reala as expired has given me color casts.


Flower2 by mm35exp36, on Flickr


Untitled by mm35exp36, on Flickr

But also plain Superia isn't bad - extinct Superia 100. Now use Superia 200.


Teahouse by mm35exp36, on Flickr

How about fast film? Superia 800 pushed to 1600.


Untitled by mm35exp36, on Flickr

 

[Greyscale]

Superia 800 at box speed


021_21A by Greyscale3, on Flickr

Superia 400


014_014 by Greyscale3, on Flickr

I think Reala 100 in 35mm is now extinct as well, all I can find fresh are MF.

 

[Greyscale]

Kodak 200 Gold


041_5A by Greyscale3, on Flickr


048_4A by Greyscale3, on Flickr

 

[paulfish4570]

i am running a roll of superia 400 through the f2 ...