Free Fuji Superia X-tra 400 - continental US

[Dante_Stella]

I have one multi-box (5 x 24) of Fuji Superia X-tra 400. Expires 6/2009. I opened the box but never got around to using any of the film. I'll pay shipping. I bought this at Staples as an impulse buy (it was on clearance) and refrigerated it. I just don't think I'm going to switch off Kodak HD400 (which scans really well off my equipment) until I can run some tests on Ektar 100.

I'll also throw in 3 rolls (24) of expired (12/2007) Superia X-tra 400 (4th layer). Same story; got through two rolls in two years. I don't know why the 4th layer version would have an earlier date than the non-.

I'll pay shipping. I'm more into preventing waste than trying to extract a couple of dollars from someone.

D

 

[payasam]

Sending PM.

 

[Dante_Stella]

Film is claimed.

 

[Al Kaplan]

Congratulations, Mukul. Use it well!

 

[payasam]

Thanks, Al: I propose to do that. The world can do with more Dante Stellas. Now, about those four rolls you have sitting around...

 

[payasam]

The film has reached the friend in NYC who will soon send it to me along with the Ultron 35/1.7 I have bought from another RFF member. Thanks again.

 

[payasam]

Dante, I've run through the first roll. There's one picture in my gallery (ASA 400 wasted in sunlight), and here's another. This was taken with a 90mm lens at maximum aperture (f/3.5). I would not have been able safely to hand hold the camera with slower film. I got 6" by 4" prints and considered nine frames good enough to be scanned. I'm hoping your gift will give me many more tolerably good photos.

 

[xichlo]

This film sold at my local COSTCO store. I used this film quite a lot for general purpose, friends and family, not bad at all. However, my local COSTCO stoped saling flim recently, at first Kodak GOLD, now Fuji Superia X-Tra. People said film is not dead, may be for the avid amateurs or the pros. For consumers, film is dead.

XL

 

[dfoo]

My local costco still sells it. 6 rolls of 24 for $13 CDN.

 

[amateriat]

Plenty of it down the street at my local Rite-Aid (among other places). Not bad, basically the consumer flavor of Fuji Pro 400, methinks.


- Barrett

 

[payasam]

Perhaps a little grainy compared with the Fuji Pro 400. Colour rendition is fine, as is how it copes with highlights and shadows.

 

[payasam]

Here's a picture which shows the tonal range that the film can handle.