First photos with Portra 160VC

[EcoLeica]

Sadly the main pro shop in my town has gone into liquidation, but the silver lining is that they sold off their film cheaply. I picked up a couple of rolls of portra 160vc to have a go. Seeing I dont usually shoot colour neg, Im very impressed with the results, its a bit tricky to scan but I quiet like the results...tell me what you think! Shot using Nikon FE with 28mm Nikkor

 

[Tuolumne]

A bit under exposed due to back lighting. That may be one reason you had a hard time scanning it.

/T

 

[Erik L]

i could never shoot black and white constantly.

 

[cole]

Overall, a nice job! You're right, I can see it was tricky to scan, but keep at it.

Portra 160VC is a great colour neg film, congrats on the cheap find!

 

[Dektol Dan]

Tricky?
Hmmm. I've always thought it scanned easier and better than any negative film made to date. What are you scanning it with?

160 VC Porta, Leica M4 Summaron 2.8

 

[Samsam]

Portra 160VC has very good colours

I like to use Portra 160VC in the subway with a 35mm summicron v4 @ f2

 

[Photon42]

Sadly the main pro shop in my town has gone into liquidation, but the silver lining is that they sold off their film cheaply. I picked up a couple of rolls of portra 160vc to have a go. Seeing I dont usually shoot colour neg, Im very impressed with the results, its a bit tricky to scan but I quiet like the results...tell me what you think! Shot using Nikon FE with 28mm Nikkor

I also shot a roll of 160VC recently. I haven't had much luck scanning with Vuescan and it's VC preset - most came out too dark for my taste. Will try with the generic setting next weekend.

Rgds
Ivo

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

I don't have any problems scanning this stuff,- and it's fortunate that I really like it..........a few months ago I bought twenty five rolls, cheap,- on Ebay!
Dave.

 

[EcoLeica]

Very nice work all of you! hmmm oh dear have I started a colour obsession now! Using black and white constantly was more of a economical factor for me. Being a student for the last 5 years meant that film processing was pushed to the backburner.

 

[Rhoyle]

I love the color of that film. My favorite color neg film. BTW, was the fiddle player really a southpaw, or was the neg reversed?

 

[EcoLeica]

hahaha whoops i forgot to reverse it! this is really bad...especially since im a fiddle player myself!

 

[35photo]

Sadly the main pro shop in my town has gone into liquidation, but the silver lining is that they sold off their film cheaply. I picked up a couple of rolls of portra 160vc to have a go. Seeing I dont usually shoot colour neg, Im very impressed with the results, its a bit tricky to scan but I quiet like the results...tell me what you think! Shot using Nikon FE with 28mm Nikkor

Is this the new 160-2? The older stuff was not really good scanned too much noise. I shoot a roll of the new Ektar 100 huge difference in the way it scans. The grain is way tighter and colors are probably a bit more saturated than the VC. I've got an image posted on my site from Ektar 100 its the very first image

 

[capitalK]

I used it for the first time recently on (Canadian) election night.

 

[chambrenoire]

capitalK: What gear did you use with these pics? Very nice BTW!

 

[capitalK]

Thanks. Just what's in my signature. R2A with Jupiter-3.

 

[jan normandale]

I like the VC , UC and NC. I really like the NC for people. Having said that I'd shoot any of these without hesitation. My scans are more than satisfactory to me. I use an Epson 4490 set to colour neg, 48 bit, TIFF and 720. More than adequate for the 'net. I usually do my clone stamping of dirt, dust etc by hand. I do not use any of the scanning settings for software sharpening nor for cleaning up the negs.