Kodak Ultracolour Results

[snaggs]

If you like your photos to explode with colour, try this stuff and shoot it with an EI of 320. Just make sure your ready for it, I'd say that Kodak Ultracolour gives +1 stop more colour than Velvia. Skin tones did go a bit off though, probably due to the lack of a 4th colour layer.

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The prints look even more colourfull.

Daniel.

 

[rbiemer]

Nice! I use this film on the rare occasions I shoot color. Unfortuneatly the prints are hit or miss depending on which minimum wage drone is running the machine where I take my film. The negs are ok, so I can get stuff redone if needed.
Your model in the second shot is going to repay you for that pose in the coming years!😀
Rob

 

[RayPA]

If you like your photos to explode with colour, try this stuff ...
Daniel.

I posted in another thread that Walgreens had a sale on the 3-packs of this stuff. IIRC, it was better than half off. I bought four boxes, and I'm shooting it at graduations and sporting events.

🙂

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I really enjoy the color this film gives when I shoot cars. The combination with my Industar 61 l/d is fun. The contrast works nicely for me.

 

[sockeyed]

Great shots. Is this UC400? If so, I shot quite a lot of it (also at 320) on a trip to Vietnam in the fall after reading raves about it on photo.net. Personally, I found it pretty good, with fairly accurate colours and medium contrast. Flesh tones tended a bit towards yellow, I thought. For my next major trip like that, I think that I will stick to my favourites: Fuji NPH and Reala. The UC400 is great for the price though.

I've attached a couple of samples shot on UC400.

 

[JoeFriday]

I shot a roll of it while out fly fishing and found the greens and yellows, which were predominant in the environment, to be way over the top.. but that could have been the lab tech's doing

 

[sockeyed]

I heard that it's important to get this film printed on Kodak paper to achieve the intended colour balance.

 

[snaggs]

The film is way over the top! Which is sometimes the point. As mentioned the skin tones can go a bit yellow, so its not good for asian skin, made my wife look like she had jaundice in one photo.

Certainly not a general purpose film.

Daniel.

 

[MCTuomey]

Here's a couple from a roll of UC100 shot with my snappy Hi-Matic E. Pure eye candy, those colors. Good for some fun when you need to bust out of a pastel rut. Although I like Portra NC quite a bit, every once in awhile a roll of UC juices things up.

 

[JoeFriday]

great shots, Mike!

 

[chug]

I like the colours on the shots on this thread, nice blues and greens and reds 🙂 Might have to give this film a shot one day! 🙂

 

[MCTuomey]

thanks, joe. ya gotta love outlandish UC for what it is.

 

[sockeyed]

If you want outlandish, try Agfa Ultra.

 

[MCTuomey]

I'll keep that in mind, Sockeyed. I don't use these mucho coloroso films often, but I like to play around with different ones for fun.

 

[Doug]

The colors are strong, but I'd not call them "over the top." Maybe it's a matter of preference... or dulled senses! But I think UC is a fine all-round film. Here's a couple of samples:

 

[sockeyed]

I agree with Doug - I don't think that the colours in UC are over the top. "Ultracolor" is a bit of a misnomer, I think. Fuji Superia and Kodak HD are more saturated, as many consumer films are. Agfa Ultra is hyper-saturated and high contrast. Ultracolor is actually more medium-contrast than these films, and the colours are closer to natural. Most of my shots are of people, though, so for that I choose lower-contrast, less-saturated portait films, like Fuji NPH.