120 Color Film?

I have used Fujifilm's Provia 400F and NPH (now named Pro 400H) in 120. The NPH was very good film, and Provia 400F is always amazing, but I didn't have good luck with it due to a sticky shutter...
 
I like Kodak E100 GX. It a nice fine-grained, warm film. I like to use it for festivals, parades, and any event involving action and people. Its dynamic range is a bit narrow, but if you respect it, it provides beautiful output.
 
I use almost exclusively Fuji Reala (surprisesurprise!), often past its use-by date, as I picked up a bunch of expired-aroundabout-1995 last year. I recently bought some NPS 120 though, and shall give that a try next....I stick with the slow stuff for my MF cameras, since all but one have no meter; with 100ASA and 120ASA and the shutter at a 125th, Sunny 16 is a breeze, even for mathematical morons like me.
 
I think the point is that with a bigger film size, the impact of a transparency is even more powerful. I agree that a _projected_ 120 slide is astounding, but it's "just bigger" otherwise.

allan
 
Best negative color film on the market today is Kodak Portra 160ASA VC (Vivid Colors). Not NC which is intended for artificial light and which produces dull and unsaturated colors in natural light. Faster negative color films are so grainy that several digital cameras produces far better result. Like Canon 5D and 1D/1Ds II.
 
I like a lot Portra 400VC (old version, never tried the new one) for general shooting. I didn't see a lot of grain (but I don't enlarge a lot the prints so...) and I prefer always natural light and with lenses that wide open are f/4.5 I have to use 400 ASA rolls.

Sometimes only for portrait I use Portra 400NC (the old version), the color are unsaturated but sometimes I want to convey the feeling of old polaroids!

Hi,

Carlo
 
Porta 400VC, but I intend to try the 400UC.

I'm not normally a fan of super saturated colors, but the VC does not go too far. In any case, I can tune it down in PS or more likely it will undergo a monochrome conversion anyway.

400iso seems very well suited to my MF folders anyway. I can keep them fairly stopped down for dof and I can rate it .5-1 stop slower if need be on too bright AZ days.
 
For my more than 50 years old Rolleiflex (it was my father's) I use Fuji PRO 160 C (higher contrast than PRO 160S). In lower light condition Fuji PRO 400 H. even if on 35 mm I profer slides in this case I prefer negative film because having to use an external light meter sometimes the exposure is not really correct and in my opinion negative film, developed and printed by a professional lab, are more forgiving. I know, it is a weak point of my operating way !
robert
 
Fujifilm 400H (aka Fujifilm NPH 400) is my favorite color film for 120s.
 
If you'd like to go for something cheap, I'd recommend Fuji Superia 100.
I'm attaching a shot from my Voigtländer Perkeo 1 folder with a 100% crop!
 

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I feed my various medium formats a steady diet of Portra 160 VC for most shooting. Obviously there are some circumstances where that's not ideal, but as a basic carry around film where I don't have a particular subject or assigment, that's what I'll use.
 
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