Decent high speed color films?

[helen.HH]

payasam:
I will now have to try 800 x tra....
experiments & decisions

 

[dmr]

I would second the recommendation for the Fuji 800, and even the 1600. I've had good luck with both.

Fuji 800:

 

[SebC]

I find Pro 800z too grainy for my tastes in colour. I found it quite finicky for a colour print film too in terms of exposure - the shadows block up quite easily in my experience.

Anyway, pro800z, no post processing:

 

[ruby.monkey]

Fuji Provia 400X looks fine when pushed to 1600.

 

[SebC]

Oh, and if anyone in the UK fancies trying some Pro 800z, 7dayshop.com has 5 roll packs of near date film (135/36 exp) for £9.95 with free delivery.

 

[jvan01]

For those of you who push 400X to 1600, are you setting your meter to a true 1600, or is it more 1250 for extra exposure?

 

[aldobonnard]

Portra 800 (if you can find some)
kodak slide film (E100Gx & VS, if you're steady..)
fuji Provia and Sensia slide film
Fuji 800 / 1600 Natura or Superia (same film I think)
Definitely the slide film in interiors with artificial or mixed light is better handled by my minolta scanner than neg films

 

[Biggles]

I don't use color much at all, but I did buy a roll of Fuji Press 1600 to try out a new CL in a hurry last month:

I'd use it again, though that would obviously entail my learning to expose it properly. I think I was consistently a bit under, using my normal Neopan 1600 nighttime guesstimates and fudges, which generally give me negatives that are a bit over.

 

[squirrel$$$bandit]

I love 800z--it's my favorite color neg film by a wide margin.

 

[papasnap]

I don't use color much at all, but I did buy a roll of Fuji Press 1600 to try out a new CL in a hurry last month:

that's dynamite!

jvan01, for myself when using 400X: I set the iso to 1600 on my camera, and get it push processed +2 stops at my lab.

 

[simonankor]

I'm going to throw in a vote for standard Fuji Superia 800. I have a stack of rolls of it lying around, well out of date, and still consistent.

Best to overexpose it a bit though, I shoot it at 500.

 

[umcelinho]

Fuji PRO 800Z is amazing. I shot my first roll with it and the color rendition is great, and the grain is pretty good for iso 800. Superia 1600 is interesting for the speed, but it's much grainier than the 800Z...

for slide film, I have bought (but not yet shot, so if anyone has please leave a feedback!) some rolls of Ektachrome P1600, which surprised me as I had never ever seen such a high speed positive film! if that kind of speed is not needed, I'd probably go with Provia 400.

 

[degruyl]

for slide film, I have bought (but not yet shot, so if anyone has please leave a feedback!) some rolls of Ektachrome P1600, which surprised me as I had never ever seen such a high speed positive film! if that kind of speed is not needed, I'd probably go with Provia 400.

Never seen this film... but I looked it up (the P should have been a giveaway) .

From Page 3 of http://www.kodak.com/global/en/professional/support/techPubs/e147/e147.pdf

EKTACHROME P1600 Professional Film is optimized for a
2-stop push process (e.g. exposed at EI 1600).

It is a 400 speed film that is designed to be pushed two stops. More or less like T-Max P3200 (which is pretty close to 800, I believe, but will not look up).

I would love to see some results, when you get this back.

I would definitely mark the speed (EI) that it was shot at on the package for the lab, if it were my film. I might also call / bring it to a pro lab in person. It seems likely that failure to push is a point of failure with this film.