By the way, here's a copy of some replies from another related thread:
Charles Morris 09/18/2003
Posting images online won't tell you much about this film. the only good way to see what it can do is to get some enlargements made or use a loupe to look at the negatives. i have used it since it became available to me locally and here are some observations.
it offers more saturated colors especially reds and blues. comparing high definition to kodak gold 400 is sort of like comparing portra NC to portra VC. it is just brighter, i think a bit warmer. sometimes too bright to the point of rendering large areas of one of these colors as a single shade.
the grain does seem to be finer. i can't print color in my darkroom but the enlarger offers some insight magnifying the negatives from various other films. looking at the negatives on the baseboard at what would be a 20x30 enlargement, it is clear grain is finer in the film, where gold 400 this is pretty evident. again, this color saturation issue shows up, it seems to be a bit higher contrast, but bright colors are sometimes flattened to a single tone. the negative shows some variation and tones that so far none of the printers i have used can seem to get on paper.
this is still a new product. many of the printers have not developed a workflow that can take advantage of this film. i have not tried one of the kodak "perfect touch" labs yet, but one pro lab locally, and some of the better labs that use fuji frontier print systems have tried to get some tones out of reds and the images just look flat. where portra would give me a nice range of transisitons that show the texture of say, a red blanket in a baby picture, with high definition i don't see that in the prints even though i can see it on the negatives.
i will keep using this film off and on but until i see some improvments in the process/printing i can get locally without spending a mint for professional prints, i will stick with using it for outdoors shots that could benefit form the saturated colors,but don't have to preserve skin tones.
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Elangovan S USEFILMDONOR 09/19/2003
As Charles mentioned, I think, this film produces a very nice saturated colors. Well, I kinda like satautrated images. Its very fine grain film. I really liked it.
Here are some pictures for sample. These were processed with Kodak processing.
[Photo Critique Image http://www.usefilm.com/image/190589.html]
[Photo Critique Image http://www.usefilm.com/image/191763.html]
Elangs.
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Mark Beltran USEFILMDONOR 09/18/2003
Elangs, those are really good examples. I can tell especially with the red painted chair. Very good definition, fine detail, and the reds are out of this world.
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