Name a good indoor color film

[Creagerj]

What is a good color film for indoor shooting? Something that will work well in low light and available light?

 

[sunsworth]

Fuji Superia 800 - also sold as Fuji Press.

Steve

 

[PeterL]

Kodak Portra 400VC. I swear by it. The 800 is okay, though not as nice and much more noticable grain.


Peter.

 

[Nikon Bob]

I have had good luck with Fuji Superia 800 and Fuji Press 800 and have also read that their pro version of 800 might be slightly better.

Nikon Bob

 

[Richard Black]

I just filmed my daughter's nursing school pinning with the Fuji Press 800 and was quite pleased. Good color and little, if any noticeable, grain on 4x6 photos.

 

[Solinar]

Try rating Fuji NPZ 800 @EI640 for indoor color. Downrating the film gives colors a slight boost.

 

[SDK]

Fuji NPZ or the recently rebadged version, Fuji Pro 800Z, is my favorite 800 ISO film. It's much less grainy than Kodak Portra 800 and handles mixed light well. Here are some example shots from last summer on NPZ:

Heron's First Birthday Cake
Phoebe tastes the Birthday Cake
Phoebe tastes the Birthday Cake 2

I'm sure the Fuji Superia/Press 800 is also pretty good, but I have not used it since the older Fuji 800G version was on the market. I do rate them at 500-640 ISO, usually. These films push to one stop to 1000-1200 very well too, with little or no increase in contrast.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Before you choose a film look at the lighting. Indoors daylight, indoors lightbulbs, or indoors strip lights. They all look OK to us in real life but on film they come out weird if you use the wrong film and/or filter.

It's the 'color temperature' of the lights, not the brightness, that determines your film choice.

Having said that, if you use flash then it all becomes a non question because it's the flash that provides the lighting and it will work with just about any film you are used to.

 

[SDK]

Jon, that might be true of slide film, but color negative film should be color balance-able in printing for any light source. Fuji 800 films all have 4th layer technology which allows them to make more naturalistic pictures from scenes with mixed light sources of different color temperatures. They have a real edge over Kodak Here.

 

[ClaremontPhoto]

Thank you SDK, I'd never heard that before.

 

[Berk Sirman]

Fuji NPH400 (now called 400H if I am not mistaken) and NPZ800 (now 800Z??).

I did not get good results from press/superia series but it's all subjective I guess.