This is an amazing video. I really liked your black & white video and though I didn't use the spreadsheet when I watched that video, I may go back and do it now. I was happy to see I rated the films pretty consistently, so my opinion didn't change much from one scene to the next on things like contrast and colour, that was validating. So my highest rated film at 81.07% is Ektar, followed by Fujifilm Pro 400H at 69.33% The film I hated the most at 44.53% was ColorPlus 200, and second lowest with 45.60% was CineStill 50d. I laughed and laughed. People love that film but it's emo hipster trash, as far as I'm concerned :P
Thanks! My numbers were very similar to yours. And yeah, I don't get Cinestill 50d, at least developed in c41. Have you ever tried night photography with 800t though? I really love the look.
@@AndrewGoodCamera I have not tried that. I really don't like colour in general, which is why I took the test, I asked myself "I wonder if there's something I like more than Ektar" Nope. Now that I have a solid medium format I plan to revisit colour, see if I like it in that format...starting with Ektar I guess :)
I think CineStill might be perceived somewhat washed and bland because since it's based on a movie film stock, it's intended to be graded before being displayed, tho don't quote me on that.
Well this all depends on the scanner and scanner settings as well. CineStill 800T scanned on a Frontier or with the Frontier setting in NLP is my favorite color look ever. I also shoot it with an 85 filter in day light.
This is massive. Not only scientifically well-made, but also curated from the profesional perspective giving more insights for each of the different films. I can only begin to imagine the immense amount of work that this 21 minutes video has taken you. Worth watching and re-watching. Big thanks for this.
Probably the best whole THING I found on the internet, like, in the whole social media era. This is what the internet originally was built for, I think. Many people getting together, sharing knowledge and supplying materials to help each other and exchange. Philosophy rant over. Thank you!!! For this helpful tool, as I'm slowly approaching colour photography, I have yet to find out almost everything about it.
This video is absolute insanity. As a beginner photographer this is like learning all the secret tips and tricks all at once, feels like I stumbled and found a pot of gold
I once asked my dad how would I know what film does what? he said something like unless someone has taken the same photo with the same camera and changed the film but kept everything the same, you'll have to learn it all yourself... Then I saw this video. *science* this video really does show how amazing our eyes are
For budget landscapes/items photography I will choose Fuji C200. For budget portrait photography I will choose Kodak Gold 200. For cloudy and moody versatile photography (dominated by green colors) I will choose Fuji Pro 400H. For cloudy and moody versatile photography (dominated by yellow colors) I will choose Portra 400. For sunny and contrast versatile photography I will choose Kodak Ektar 100.
Bickey Kunwar rangefinder 35mm lens hp5 push to 1600 500-1000 speed normal day set lens distance on 1.5-2m and you r in focus subjects freezes 1m to infinity frame and shoot away like a boss 😂😎💪🏻
Thanks for including a darker skinned model in some of your test shots. An Ultramax lab scan not rendering that skin tone correcctly was was made me go to Fuji C200
A very late reply to this but I was going to say the same thing. With film being made for lighter skin tones, it’s so good to have included someone of a darker skin tone so that we can see how well it captures them as well 🎉
I only shoot E6, so I would appreciate that. But then again, there are only really like 4 slide films on the market... and they are all good. For different purposes but excellent.
Wow. You really went the extra mile with this video. The lengths you went to to capture identical scenes with the same hardware and different film stocks is truly remarkable. Smart way to do it to avoid shooting images at different times of day / lighting conditions. I especially liked seeing the landscape images included with the portraits. If you haven't made one already, a comparison of Fortia, Provia, Sensia, and Velvia would be great to see (assuming they're even commercially available still). I especially like Velvia 50 images shot outdoors in bright daylight.
thank you so much. my results: 93.06% D - Kodak Ektar 100 84.17% A - Fujifilm C200 83.33% C - Fujifilm Pro 400h 72.50% B - Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400 71.94% G - Kodak Portra 160 69.44% E - Kodak GC/UltraMax 400 64.44% F - Kodak Gold 200 56.67% I - Kodak ColorPlus 200 52.78% H - Cinestill 50d ... and indeed this covers my actual preferences. Kodak Portra 400 would have been great in addition for comparing
For those having a lab scan their images, it’s very important to consider which machine is being used as they also add their own color science. Frontier tends to add a more golden cast (offsetting Fujifilm’s pinkish hue), while Noritsu has a more red base (offsetting Kodak’s golden hue). I generally stick with a Fuji Frontier scanner with Fuji emulsions and the Noritsu with Kodak films. Mixing these will often result in way too much pink or gold tones - unless you can communicate in advance with the scanner technician the output your looking for. Excellent video as always!!
@@eoghanhennessy15 funny thing is, before getting to the reveal, I noticed myself looking at the hue for the blues. If a film can give me a very interesting blue, I'm sold (can't decide between Portra or Ektar. They're both really interesting).
My friend you have unfortunately made a couple of minor grammatical/spelling errors in your comment . As you now probably realize doing this is like throwing chum to the sharks for the Grammar Nazis ( lol ) .
I liked the Ektar (except for skintones) and the Portra for skintones. Would have been nice to see a low ISO Fuji, but they’ve discontinued them all I think for color negatives. The Cinestill looked like crap - I don’t know why people shoot that. If not shooting people, Ektar seems the clear winner. I used to shoot Ektar 25 back in the day, I wish they’d bring more of the slow speed films back. People who grew up with digital are used to greater sensitivity I guess.
interesting. Fuji C200 scored best for me, and it's the cheapest too! In second comes Fujifilm Pro 400h and in third Superia Xtra 400! Guess I should be shooting Fuji... (did this as a beginner to film photography)
Thanks for putting in the incredible amount of effort and work into this video. I saw my favorites confirmed by the blind test and the consistent results are telling me that Ektar and Portra should remain my go-to films. It would be really cool to see a video on the differences of slide films. Keep up the good work!
Color preference is subjective and a personal preference. I’am not sure why buy I have always preferred colder tones my favorite color is green so I guess I don’t mind slightly green shadows. I definitely do not like overly warm yellowish color rendering . It’s the Same in digital I shoot my instagram out of convenience with my Sony but prefer the color rendition from my canon 5d .
greatgreatgreat! Putting this together must have been a lot of work. Will watch this later in full length in the darkroom while the machine is heating up :) Thank you for the video. And I'd love to have your sweater (with another stock).
ektar reeeeeally surprised me! even though, going through my mdeium format scans i realized my favourite roll ever was also shot on ektar...completely forgot about it! amazing.
I too love Ektar and turns out the blind test confirmed that, although it was sort of unfair since I knew by look which one Ektar was. Beautiful film! According to my results I also need to try 400H. That may make sense since I don't particularly care for Portra 160 all that much. Or Cinestill although I've shot actual Vision 3 250D developed in a real ECN-2 process. It scans in rather flat but it's quite a film to love as well - if processing it was easier. Back to Ektar, it has never failed me in 35mm. I find it gets progressively harder to scan/color correct as I go up to larger formats. Gorgeous when I get it right but frustrating when I get it wrong. It's still my favorite color negative film though.
Awesome job guys! Could only imagine carrying around all those cameras and setting this all up. Ended up liking Ektar and Superia 400, not a huge surprise 😉 also kudos for getting people of different skin tones for reference 🙏🏽
Truly amazed by the quality of of your comparsion videos! I really feel enlightened! I can't even imagine how much hard work you've (once again) put into testing, but I can assure you that it is appreciated! Thank YOU!
Briliant video...have used several of these film but never seen the vast differences between them. Have used ColourPlus and C200 a lot, but my favourit "pro" film is EKTAR as well (mainly in 120 format). Anyway grate video, keep it up!
Ektar 100 is my go to film with my Leica M2, I cant stop looking at the images I get with it, but the Fuji C200 impressed me and at almost a third the price, I might have to check it out.
Very cool video! I did the blind test and the result surprised me quite a lot. My favorite films are Kodak Ektar, Kodak ProImage, Kodak ProFoto, Kodak Ultramax and Fuji inland 100 (the one with japanese letters and white box). I've tried A, B, D, E, F, I in the list. - Fuji C200 and Kodak CP200: Pretty much the beginner's choice. I don't use it much since it's grainy and not sharp. But somehow I scored them a solid 4 on grain structure, 4,6 and 3,3 on sharpness. - Fuji Xtra 400: It has a pink tone that I don't like, not really good on skin and while the color is very punchy, it's kinda' too over for me. Yet it score very good in my chart (4;4,3;4,3;3,6) - Kodak gold 200 and Kodak ultramax 400: I like them both and personally I think ultramax is very good for skin tone. Color is great and punchy, good contrast but grainy and not very sharp. Still they scored really low in my chart (even with the scene 2 where ultramax could shine according to my personal experience) - Kodak Ektar 100: My favorite of all time. It's like digital simulator for film. Very sharp, extraodinary grain, superb color and contrast. The only downside is the skin tone might get reddish. I scored it second to Fuji Pro400H, which I haven't tried due to the skyrocket price of fuji films. - Potra: The only good score I gave to it was in scene 2, the rest is forgettable. Guess it really does what it does best (portrait). Still those results also depend on the lenses (color, contrast and acutance). None of it scored 5 in acutance, in my opinion. My favorite lenses are Kodak Retina's and Zeiss Opton, they give better optical quality overall.
Thank you so much for what you have done here, you really open my mind, I was almost sure that I will stop shooting C200 because I didn't like and was the one with the higher score. But what happen with Kodak Pro Image? you show it in the B-roll but it didn't appear in the test and here in South America (Argentina9 kodak pro image is the cheapest and the most popular one so iskind of a big deal for us
Sorry. I almost went with Kodak Pro Image, but decided not to because it's not available in the U.S., though there are talks that it will be soon. I regretted not doing so. But I plan on doing this test annually and keep it current.
This was amazing!! This video was exactly what I was looking for! I just recently bought a canon sureshot 85 zoom and I had no idea what kind of film to get but my top favorite was the Kodak Ektar 100! So grateful to have found this video/channel!
I am just starting my film photography journey and am glad I found this. Thank you for using different scenarios in the comparison to see just how well the films function in different situations. When it was all said and done, I am apparently a Fuji guy. Who knew.
Your effort in putting this entire experience together for us is so amazing. Hats off to you and thank you. I recently came into three mint-condition film cameras - a Canon AE-1, Minolta X-700, and Pentax K1000. I'm so excited to finally start shooting film after 5-6 years shooting digitally as a profession and always wanting to give film a shot. I've studied it a lot and it wasn't until you put everything into perspective with these side-by-sides and also providing the spreadsheet to help me keep track of my points of value that I feel I was truly ready to pull the trigger on ordering some rolls. It's funny because I've always absolutely loved the Fuji look, and it doesn't surprise me that, even blind, their C200 and Superia Xtra 400 stocks came out on top, with 81.33% and 90.33% scores, respectively. I know what I'll be ordering this week. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Wow, thank you for taking the time to make this video. I personally love UltraMax at 200 but processed at 400 and Ektar at 50, processed for box speed. This is the first video I’ve watched of yours and you’ve got yourself another subscriber! Keep it up!!
Great video! Very well put together. Kodak Ektar and Ultramax are my go-to film stocks of choice, although recently I've really been enjoying pushing Potra 400.
Thank you for putting this together! I just had time to sit down and go through it properly with the scoring sheet, and I found it to be a wonderful resource for finding what film I want to shoot next. Last summer I did a bike trip with my partner where I shot fujifilm superia 400, and while I loved the results, something didn't look quite right. As you pointed out, it was the green shadows that I was noticing (even 1 stop overexposed). Looks like next up is Gold 200, and maybe some Ektar (😍) if I can justify the price. Thank you from Victoria, B.C., Canada 😄 (and P.S... yes please to the E6 video)
Wow amazing work! really helpful. I am using this research in my decision making for the X Recipes in my Fuji X xpro2, not the same I know but fun! Thank you for the time and effort!
Bro.. your dope jumper and tremendous leg work done here gone saved me like a bunch of money trying to find the color look I want. Ektar 100 is the bees knees and beans!
I guess you have to redo the entire test for all the films but this time with Porta 400. JK Portra was always my favorite films for everything once the better Fuji (reala, velvia) became too hard to find. Although I must add the caveat that I never shot Ektar over all those years.
Only just saw this! Great resource man, I commend your effort in taking all those test shots and putting this together. Haha my favourite color neg has also always been Ektar 😁
1. INSANE VIDEO! 2. I felt like Kodak ColorPlus 200 had more latitude than the Ultramax 400 [which is weird]... 3. When you do direct comparisons [ color/sharpness]- it's better to cut in between shots, rather than zoom in & out. As it's hard to notice/remember the difference... 4. Great job, man!
Just got a film camera a week ago been learning as much as I can on TH-cam and this helped so much with Film. I kept going towards C and G. FUJIFILM PRO400 and KODAK PORTRA160.
Wow,b&w and now color film comparison.Thankyou so much i think most of us appreciate what you do.Thankyou for the effort and time you put in this project.I will now sub to your channel.
"The biggest drawback of ultramax is the grain, which you can really see even in slight underexposed photos" OMG i love LOVEEE the grain and colors of the dog photo in 14:40 !!! I will buy and underexpose ultramax 400 lol.
Weighted mine heavily toward color and grain (less is better), and wouldn't you know it, all the slower films rose to the top. Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go overexpose some Portra 160 by a stop or two.
This video is interesting. Very detailed and points out the differences between various films and it's ok. However, no matter what movie you choose, whatever! If you are an amateur photographer and just want to experience film photography, it makes no difference. The film, after being developed, will be scanned and the image will be shown on cell phone or tablet screens. WHATEVER! Don't spend money for nothing!😳
I'd be happy if the test scans included other shots (e.g. the landscape that was shown in the beginning, the photos of the dog or the portraits). I guess there are other people like me who would like to see more examples available for blind comparison.
I loved how you kept it blind, it helped me be non biased on names and helped me pick one out. Surprisingly, Kodak was the one I liked most, based on the images i liked 3 different kodaks and 1 Fuji, everything else was neutral and not like was Cinestill. I will probably be getting the Kodak Ektar 100 as my first film. Thank you for putting this up
Ektar is clearly in a league of it's own. If it wasn't for the price it'd be my go to film. After it all the Fuji films scored high with me. Fuji Superia Xtra 400 is the film I grew up with, and the film which scored the highest after Ektar. I wonder if that's related. Although the Kodak Pro Image 100 is a pretty good film as well, for the price.
Great video! My favourite is also Ektar 100 but the 200 speed films tend to be more practical in terms of price and local availability. I am currently experimenting with shooting Gold @ 100 as it is quite affordable.
very interesting the blind test did actually work for my test ... I like FujiPro400H in real life and it did score the highest in the blindest for me :D
Wow, I always thought I was more of a kodak person for budget film, but my scores for the fuji films ran circles around the kodak. I'm going to go buy some c200, thank you so much for the fresh perspective!
Great video, surprisingly Fuji C200 (a film I like) won out, but Cinestill 50D (a film I also like) came dead last :-) The rest were pretty accurate, favouring Kodak for low ISO and Fuji for high
Damn i never knew that i would end up liking porta the most, followed by 400h. I thought it was the only the hype which dictated the prices of these pro stock but i was proven wrong. The color, contrast, skin tone, grain structure, porta ended up acing everything in my books
Really cool and useful exercise. Turns out I like Ektar and 400H most. I can count my Ektar rolls on one hand and I never shot 400H :). I remember a vid of David's mentioning Ektar as a top film (also for portraits). I had it on a wishlist since then and I guess I'll have to bump it up a bit... Thank you!
I don't scan and have no scanner because I think they produce crappy colors. When I desperately need something digital, there is always a Nikon D810, a macro lens and a slide copying adapter. 36MP is more than most scans anyway and the colors are waaaaay better plus you have 14bit RAWs to work with.
I'm surprised how much I liked the consumer films like Superia and ultramax! They do have punchy color so it does catch your eye! Thanks for doing so much work to make this video possible
Hah I did the blind test and and what do you know, I ranked the Fuji stock pretty highly and most of them are either out of production, replaced by kodak stock in the US, or impossible to get. Welp, I ranked Ektar the highest and that lines up with what I usually shoot. With how expensive color films are now and how most of them are constantly out of stock, its getting harder by the day to continue with film shooting.
Portra 400 is a different beast to 160. As different as 160 to some of the other films here. 400 is a bit more contrasty, a bit more saturated, has a lovely grain, and is very, very forgiving. You get the Portra look, but it isn't as not-in-your-face as 160. It's a lovely thing. Give it a whirl.
Oh man, another one! Your comparison videos are really insanely great! Please do a E-6 comparison video! And I'd really like to hear your opinion of whether the Fuji-x-emulations come actually close to some of their analog counterparts. Also which emulations do you still miss from Fuji? Cheers again from germany. (1Ektar, 2Pro400H, 3Portra)
I wouldn't say I "miss" any particular film. I didn't shoot the likes of Natura or Industrial. But it's actually not a Fuji film, kodachrome, I love and wish I could have shot with.
Great video thanks for taking the time . ok so my all time favourite film ever has always been Ektachrome I've shot it for the past 20 years and was so pleased with kodaks reintroduction of it and when I saw your intro and saw some boxes of it I was looking forward to picking it out of your lineup. So I watched the video and and i was looking for a frame that would blow my socks off usually ektachrome always does and a perfectly exposed ektachrome shot is like nothing else it really stands head and shoulders above any other for its gorgeous saturated look and none of the shots in your lineup kinda did closest was E or B. Then you reveal you didn't put Ektachrome in the lineup yet you did shoot it and you have it in your video at 20:33 and by god is it the best of the whole bunch. I really hate how the reversal films are pitched as being difficult I gave a friend a pentax ME Super with TTL metering pretty much all shots gained were good its not that hard!!!! Anyhow moral of the story shoot ektachrome then you can scan your film and project it as well!!! Unlike all the others I feel like I'm there and the sun is setting behind me at that location!
I've settled to shooting b&w negative and just color slides. I process and enlarge everything myself. While wet printing slides is VERY hard these days, they give the best rendering of landscapes and animals alike, which is what I do with my big glass.
thank you, this video helped me so so so much. i've been shooting film less than a year but been getting jobs and feeling like I really need to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can. this felt like going back to school! thank you kind sir
Hey so it’s REALLY frustrating (as someone who took the time to do the blind scoring) that you show film stocks in the intro that are not part of the test. I expected to see Pro Image in there for example.
Wrote every one I likes the most on every sheet. Turns out I like everyoneat some point, haha...sooo. This is how many times I chosed what: A: I B: II C: II D: II E: II F: I G: II H: II SOOO, lol.
So based on the blind test I like Fujifilm? But then looking at the review results it all does indeed look a bit too green for my liking... Guess I hate the magentas on skin from Ektar way more.
This is an amazing video. I really liked your black & white video and though I didn't use the spreadsheet when I watched that video, I may go back and do it now. I was happy to see I rated the films pretty consistently, so my opinion didn't change much from one scene to the next on things like contrast and colour, that was validating. So my highest rated film at 81.07% is Ektar, followed by Fujifilm Pro 400H at 69.33%
The film I hated the most at 44.53% was ColorPlus 200, and second lowest with 45.60% was CineStill 50d. I laughed and laughed. People love that film but it's emo hipster trash, as far as I'm concerned :P
Thanks! My numbers were very similar to yours. And yeah, I don't get Cinestill 50d, at least developed in c41. Have you ever tried night photography with 800t though? I really love the look.
@@AndrewGoodCamera I have not tried that. I really don't like colour in general, which is why I took the test, I asked myself "I wonder if there's something I like more than Ektar"
Nope.
Now that I have a solid medium format I plan to revisit colour, see if I like it in that format...starting with Ektar I guess :)
I think CineStill might be perceived somewhat washed and bland because since it's based on a movie film stock, it's intended to be graded before being displayed, tho don't quote me on that.
Azriel Knight ok
Well this all depends on the scanner and scanner settings as well. CineStill 800T scanned on a Frontier or with the Frontier setting in NLP is my favorite color look ever. I also shoot it with an 85 filter in day light.
This is massive. Not only scientifically well-made, but also curated from the profesional perspective giving more insights for each of the different films. I can only begin to imagine the immense amount of work that this 21 minutes video has taken you. Worth watching and re-watching. Big thanks for this.
Probably the best whole THING I found on the internet, like, in the whole social media era. This is what the internet originally was built for, I think. Many people getting together, sharing knowledge and supplying materials to help each other and exchange. Philosophy rant over. Thank you!!! For this helpful tool, as I'm slowly approaching colour photography, I have yet to find out almost everything about it.
This video is absolute insanity. As a beginner photographer this is like learning all the secret tips and tricks all at once, feels like I stumbled and found a pot of gold
I once asked my dad how would I know what film does what? he said something like unless someone has taken the same photo with the same camera and changed the film but kept everything the same, you'll have to learn it all yourself...
Then I saw this video. *science*
this video really does show how amazing our eyes are
For budget landscapes/items photography I will choose Fuji C200.
For budget portrait photography I will choose Kodak Gold 200.
For cloudy and moody versatile photography (dominated by green colors) I will choose Fuji Pro 400H.
For cloudy and moody versatile photography (dominated by yellow colors) I will choose Portra 400.
For sunny and contrast versatile photography I will choose Kodak Ektar 100.
what camera and films for street black and white photogrpahy>
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@@bickey9605 I am not an expert in films and just love to experiment. But I love my results with Kodak 5222.
Bickey Kunwar rangefinder 35mm lens hp5 push to 1600 500-1000 speed normal day set lens distance on 1.5-2m and you r in focus subjects freezes 1m to infinity frame and shoot away like a boss 😂😎💪🏻
Thanks for including a darker skinned model in some of your test shots. An Ultramax lab scan not rendering that skin tone correcctly was was made me go to Fuji C200
A very late reply to this but I was going to say the same thing. With film being made for lighter skin tones, it’s so good to have included someone of a darker skin tone so that we can see how well it captures them as well 🎉
Oh yeah, I'd love to see an E6 comparison!!
I only shoot E6, so I would appreciate that. But then again, there are only really like 4 slide films on the market... and they are all good. For different purposes but excellent.
Please do an E6 shootout!! When did Ektachrome come back? I had no idea!
You have made my day 😃
+1
Yeah I was expecting it in this video since it’s a color film buying guide.
Ditto!
Wow. You really went the extra mile with this video. The lengths you went to to capture identical scenes with the same hardware and different film stocks is truly remarkable. Smart way to do it to avoid shooting images at different times of day / lighting conditions. I especially liked seeing the landscape images included with the portraits. If you haven't made one already, a comparison of Fortia, Provia, Sensia, and Velvia would be great to see (assuming they're even commercially available still). I especially like Velvia 50 images shot outdoors in bright daylight.
thank you so much. my results:
93.06% D - Kodak Ektar 100
84.17% A - Fujifilm C200
83.33% C - Fujifilm Pro 400h
72.50% B - Fujifilm Superia Xtra 400
71.94% G - Kodak Portra 160
69.44% E - Kodak GC/UltraMax 400
64.44% F - Kodak Gold 200
56.67% I - Kodak ColorPlus 200
52.78% H - Cinestill 50d
... and indeed this covers my actual preferences.
Kodak Portra 400 would have been great in addition for comparing
For those having a lab scan their images, it’s very important to consider which machine is being used as they also add their own color science. Frontier tends to add a more golden cast (offsetting Fujifilm’s pinkish hue), while Noritsu has a more red base (offsetting Kodak’s golden hue). I generally stick with a Fuji Frontier scanner with Fuji emulsions and the Noritsu with Kodak films. Mixing these will often result in way too much pink or gold tones - unless you can communicate in advance with the scanner technician the output your looking for. Excellent video as always!!
Wow. A daunting task. Well done.
Agree with Ektar 100
Came in 2nd for me, but ignoring price... 1st
@@eoghanhennessy15 funny thing is, before getting to the reveal, I noticed myself looking at the hue for the blues. If a film can give me a very interesting blue, I'm sold (can't decide between Portra or Ektar. They're both really interesting).
Very nice, although I would of liked to see Porta 400 considered as well
“Porta”
So many examples already online. Everything that have been done with it have been done.
@@Anewevisual "would have"
My friend you have unfortunately made a couple of minor grammatical/spelling errors in your comment . As you now probably realize doing this is like throwing chum to the sharks for the Grammar Nazis ( lol ) .
Where did you get your hoodie?? Its so cool! I'm looking forward to the slide film comparison 😀❤
I liked the Ektar (except for skintones) and the Portra for skintones. Would have been nice to see a low ISO Fuji, but they’ve discontinued them all I think for color negatives. The Cinestill looked like crap - I don’t know why people shoot that.
If not shooting people, Ektar seems the clear winner. I used to shoot Ektar 25 back in the day, I wish they’d bring more of the slow speed films back. People who grew up with digital are used to greater sensitivity I guess.
interesting. Fuji C200 scored best for me, and it's the cheapest too! In second comes Fujifilm Pro 400h and in third Superia Xtra 400! Guess I should be shooting Fuji... (did this as a beginner to film photography)
Thanks for putting in the incredible amount of effort and work into this video. I saw my favorites confirmed by the blind test and the consistent results are telling me that Ektar and Portra should remain my go-to films. It would be really cool to see a video on the differences of slide films. Keep up the good work!
Thank you! My favorite of the 3 samples were Fuji C200 and Kodak Ektar 100; I just love Fuji color.
Color preference is subjective and a personal preference. I’am not sure why buy I have always preferred colder tones my favorite color is green so I guess I don’t mind slightly green shadows. I definitely do not like overly warm yellowish color rendering . It’s the Same in digital I shoot my instagram out of convenience with my Sony but prefer the color rendition from my canon 5d .
greatgreatgreat! Putting this together must have been a lot of work. Will watch this later in full length in the darkroom while the machine is heating up :) Thank you for the video. And I'd love to have your sweater (with another stock).
This must have been so much work! It is vastly appreciated by all of us who still enjoy shooting film, so cheers for that
ektar reeeeeally surprised me! even though, going through my mdeium format scans i realized my favourite roll ever was also shot on ektar...completely forgot about it! amazing.
I too love Ektar and turns out the blind test confirmed that, although it was sort of unfair since I knew by look which one Ektar was. Beautiful film! According to my results I also need to try 400H. That may make sense since I don't particularly care for Portra 160 all that much. Or Cinestill although I've shot actual Vision 3 250D developed in a real ECN-2 process. It scans in rather flat but it's quite a film to love as well - if processing it was easier.
Back to Ektar, it has never failed me in 35mm. I find it gets progressively harder to scan/color correct as I go up to larger formats. Gorgeous when I get it right but frustrating when I get it wrong. It's still my favorite color negative film though.
Are you me? I identified ektar at first glance since it is the only thing I shoot.
Awesome job guys! Could only imagine carrying around all those cameras and setting this all up. Ended up liking Ektar and Superia 400, not a huge surprise 😉 also kudos for getting people of different skin tones for reference 🙏🏽
Thanks Dan!
Truly amazed by the quality of of your comparsion videos! I really feel enlightened! I can't even imagine how much hard work you've (once again) put into testing, but I can assure you that it is appreciated! Thank YOU!
I am blown away by the work you put into this. Thank you for putting your heart and soul into this. Slide films would be great for a future video!
Thans Joshua!
Please do an E6 comparison... Awesome video very informative, especially to a newbie like me... Thank you for making this...
Briliant video...have used several of these film but never seen the vast differences between them. Have used ColourPlus and C200 a lot, but my favourit "pro" film is EKTAR as well (mainly in 120 format).
Anyway grate video, keep it up!
super informative, helpful, and very well made. thank you for taking the time to make this video.
Ektar 100 is my go to film with my Leica M2, I cant stop looking at the images I get with it, but the Fuji C200 impressed me and at almost a third the price, I might have to check it out.
I truly hope this video gains the audience and views it deserves given the extreme effort it took to make.
This is one of those videos that performs well over the long haul. :)
Very cool video! I did the blind test and the result surprised me quite a lot. My favorite films are Kodak Ektar, Kodak ProImage, Kodak ProFoto, Kodak Ultramax and Fuji inland 100 (the one with japanese letters and white box). I've tried A, B, D, E, F, I in the list.
- Fuji C200 and Kodak CP200: Pretty much the beginner's choice. I don't use it much since it's grainy and not sharp. But somehow I scored them a solid 4 on grain structure, 4,6 and 3,3 on sharpness.
- Fuji Xtra 400: It has a pink tone that I don't like, not really good on skin and while the color is very punchy, it's kinda' too over for me. Yet it score very good in my chart (4;4,3;4,3;3,6)
- Kodak gold 200 and Kodak ultramax 400: I like them both and personally I think ultramax is very good for skin tone. Color is great and punchy, good contrast but grainy and not very sharp. Still they scored really low in my chart (even with the scene 2 where ultramax could shine according to my personal experience)
- Kodak Ektar 100: My favorite of all time. It's like digital simulator for film. Very sharp, extraodinary grain, superb color and contrast. The only downside is the skin tone might get reddish. I scored it second to Fuji Pro400H, which I haven't tried due to the skyrocket price of fuji films.
- Potra: The only good score I gave to it was in scene 2, the rest is forgettable. Guess it really does what it does best (portrait).
Still those results also depend on the lenses (color, contrast and acutance). None of it scored 5 in acutance, in my opinion. My favorite lenses are Kodak Retina's and Zeiss Opton, they give better optical quality overall.
Thank you so much for what you have done here, you really open my mind, I was almost sure that I will stop shooting C200 because I didn't like and was the one with the higher score.
But what happen with Kodak Pro Image? you show it in the B-roll but it didn't appear in the test and here in South America (Argentina9 kodak pro image is the cheapest and the most popular one so iskind of a big deal for us
Sorry. I almost went with Kodak Pro Image, but decided not to because it's not available in the U.S., though there are talks that it will be soon. I regretted not doing so. But I plan on doing this test annually and keep it current.
This was amazing!! This video was exactly what I was looking for! I just recently bought a canon sureshot 85 zoom and I had no idea what kind of film to get but my top favorite was the Kodak Ektar 100! So grateful to have found this video/channel!
I am just starting my film photography journey and am glad I found this. Thank you for using different scenarios in the comparison to see just how well the films function in different situations. When it was all said and done, I am apparently a Fuji guy. Who knew.
Your effort in putting this entire experience together for us is so amazing. Hats off to you and thank you. I recently came into three mint-condition film cameras - a Canon AE-1, Minolta X-700, and Pentax K1000. I'm so excited to finally start shooting film after 5-6 years shooting digitally as a profession and always wanting to give film a shot. I've studied it a lot and it wasn't until you put everything into perspective with these side-by-sides and also providing the spreadsheet to help me keep track of my points of value that I feel I was truly ready to pull the trigger on ordering some rolls. It's funny because I've always absolutely loved the Fuji look, and it doesn't surprise me that, even blind, their C200 and Superia Xtra 400 stocks came out on top, with 81.33% and 90.33% scores, respectively. I know what I'll be ordering this week. Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Wow, thank you for taking the time to make this video. I personally love UltraMax at 200 but processed at 400 and Ektar at 50, processed for box speed. This is the first video I’ve watched of yours and you’ve got yourself another subscriber! Keep it up!!
This is the most clever comparison I've come across! Engaging and educational. Niccccceeee!
Before seeing the answers I’m in love with D
Wonder what it is and how much this will hurt….
why is Ed sheeran teaching me film colors
Great video! Very well put together. Kodak Ektar and Ultramax are my go-to film stocks of choice, although recently I've really been enjoying pushing Potra 400.
All the way through I thought D was portra
Same here!
Thank you for putting this together! I just had time to sit down and go through it properly with the scoring sheet, and I found it to be a wonderful resource for finding what film I want to shoot next. Last summer I did a bike trip with my partner where I shot fujifilm superia 400, and while I loved the results, something didn't look quite right. As you pointed out, it was the green shadows that I was noticing (even 1 stop overexposed). Looks like next up is Gold 200, and maybe some Ektar (😍) if I can justify the price.
Thank you from Victoria, B.C., Canada 😄 (and P.S... yes please to the E6 video)
Wow amazing work! really helpful. I am using this research in my decision making for the X Recipes in my Fuji X xpro2, not the same I know but fun!
Thank you for the time and effort!
I’m jealous you got to get the Ektachrome sweater and it sold out before I can get one.
where can we find it?
Bro.. your dope jumper and tremendous leg work done here gone saved me like a bunch of money trying to find the color look I want. Ektar 100 is the bees knees and beans!
Be careful WITH DOWNLOADING the sheet. When I opened mine all the film was revealed and not hidden. 😢😢😢😢😢
I guess you have to redo the entire test for all the films but this time with Porta 400.
JK
Portra was always my favorite films for everything once the better Fuji (reala, velvia) became too hard to find. Although I must add the caveat that I never shot Ektar over all those years.
Only just saw this! Great resource man, I commend your effort in taking all those test shots and putting this together. Haha my favourite color neg has also always been Ektar 😁
Outstanding. What scanner was used?
Indie Film Lab used the Norutsu scanner.
1. INSANE VIDEO!
2. I felt like Kodak ColorPlus 200 had more latitude than the Ultramax 400 [which is weird]...
3. When you do direct comparisons [ color/sharpness]- it's better to cut in between shots, rather than zoom in & out. As it's hard to notice/remember the difference...
4. Great job, man!
Just got a film camera a week ago been learning as much as I can on TH-cam and this helped so much with Film. I kept going towards C and G. FUJIFILM PRO400 and KODAK PORTRA160.
Wow,b&w and now color film comparison.Thankyou so much i think most of us appreciate what you do.Thankyou for the effort and time you put in this project.I will now sub to your channel.
THAT HOODIE IS FIRE!!!!!
please review slide film
"The biggest drawback of ultramax is the grain, which you can really see even in slight underexposed photos"
OMG i love LOVEEE the grain and colors of the dog photo in 14:40 !!!
I will buy and underexpose ultramax 400 lol.
Weighted mine heavily toward color and grain (less is better), and wouldn't you know it, all the slower films rose to the top.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think I'm going to go overexpose some Portra 160 by a stop or two.
This video is interesting. Very detailed and points out the differences between various films and it's ok. However, no matter what movie you choose, whatever! If you are an amateur photographer and just want to experience film photography, it makes no difference. The film, after being developed, will be scanned and the image will be shown on cell phone or tablet screens. WHATEVER! Don't spend money for nothing!😳
I'd be happy if the test scans included other shots (e.g. the landscape that was shown in the beginning, the photos of the dog or the portraits). I guess there are other people like me who would like to see more examples available for blind comparison.
See my follow up video as to why I chose the ones I did
Oh, I see.
But even if the direct comparison is impossible for other shots, maybe you could make other photos downloadable just as files in folders?
I loved how you kept it blind, it helped me be non biased on names and helped me pick one out. Surprisingly, Kodak was the one I liked most, based on the images i liked 3 different kodaks and 1 Fuji, everything else was neutral and not like was Cinestill. I will probably be getting the Kodak Ektar 100 as my first film. Thank you for putting this up
Ektar is clearly in a league of it's own. If it wasn't for the price it'd be my go to film. After it all the Fuji films scored high with me. Fuji Superia Xtra 400 is the film I grew up with, and the film which scored the highest after Ektar. I wonder if that's related. Although the Kodak Pro Image 100 is a pretty good film as well, for the price.
e100, velvia, fulichrome pro pls
Great video! My favourite is also Ektar 100 but the 200 speed films tend to be more practical in terms of price and local availability. I am currently experimenting with shooting Gold @ 100 as it is quite affordable.
very interesting the blind test did actually work for my test ... I like FujiPro400H in real life and it did score the highest in the blindest for me :D
THIS IS INCREDIBLE. Thanks for all the work that went into this!
So for Ektar 100 your camera should be at ISO 100? And for Kodak Gold 200 your camera ISO should be at 200?
Wow, I always thought I was more of a kodak person for budget film, but my scores for the fuji films ran circles around the kodak. I'm going to go buy some c200, thank you so much for the fresh perspective!
next video: shooting 35mm film blind. ;-)
I keep coming back to this video whenever I’m trying a new film stock. Such a great overview
Just choose a rewound film which is MUCH cheaper, the difference in sharpness and color fidelity is negligible.
Great video, surprisingly Fuji C200 (a film I like) won out, but Cinestill 50D (a film I also like) came dead last :-) The rest were pretty accurate, favouring Kodak for low ISO and Fuji for high
Great follow up to your black and white comparison. Thanks for the great review and massive effort.
Damn i never knew that i would end up liking porta the most, followed by 400h. I thought it was the only the hype which dictated the prices of these pro stock but i was proven wrong. The color, contrast, skin tone, grain structure, porta ended up acing everything in my books
Really cool and useful exercise. Turns out I like Ektar and 400H most. I can count my Ektar rolls on one hand and I never shot 400H :). I remember a vid of David's mentioning Ektar as a top film (also for portraits). I had it on a wishlist since then and I guess I'll have to bump it up a bit... Thank you!
I don't scan and have no scanner because I think they produce crappy colors. When I desperately need something digital, there is always a Nikon D810, a macro lens and a slide copying adapter. 36MP is more than most scans anyway and the colors are waaaaay better plus you have 14bit RAWs to work with.
I'm surprised how much I liked the consumer films like Superia and ultramax! They do have punchy color so it does catch your eye! Thanks for doing so much work to make this video possible
Outstanding review! Bring on the slide film contest. This is a most comprehensive c-41 35mm assessment. Great stuff.
Long live film.
Thank you so much for doing these. Fantastic
I’m only 29 seconds in, but this is exactly the controlled video I was looking for. Carry on.
Hah I did the blind test and and what do you know, I ranked the Fuji stock pretty highly and most of them are either out of production, replaced by kodak stock in the US, or impossible to get. Welp, I ranked Ektar the highest and that lines up with what I usually shoot. With how expensive color films are now and how most of them are constantly out of stock, its getting harder by the day to continue with film shooting.
Ektar is so nice ;_____; too bad it's costly as hell. In general I think I prefer using Kodak compared to Fujifilm, it just works better for me
This video was so amazingly helpful, thank you!!!!
I really really would love to see the slide film covered in the future. It seems that with the current analog resurgence it has been neglected.
Thank U! Ektar 100 is fucking perfect!
can u plz tell me, what color would be if I use 400 Iso with Ektar100?
Hi, I'm from India .can you please tell me an online site or any links to buy 2.5 cm (1 inche) film roll.(colour or black&white) anything
Portra 400 is a different beast to 160. As different as 160 to some of the other films here. 400 is a bit more contrasty, a bit more saturated, has a lovely grain, and is very, very forgiving. You get the Portra look, but it isn't as not-in-your-face as 160. It's a lovely thing. Give it a whirl.
As 'in-your-face'? If anything, the 400 version is in your face, 160 is usually very mild on contrast and colors.
"That's how obsessive compulsive disorder I am"
Good video, but that part made me chuckle.
Oh man, another one! Your comparison videos are really insanely great! Please do a E-6 comparison video! And I'd really like to hear your opinion of whether the Fuji-x-emulations come actually close to some of their analog counterparts. Also which emulations do you still miss from Fuji? Cheers again from germany. (1Ektar, 2Pro400H, 3Portra)
I wouldn't say I "miss" any particular film. I didn't shoot the likes of Natura or Industrial. But it's actually not a Fuji film, kodachrome, I love and wish I could have shot with.
Bless you for making this!! How does Ektar handle pushing and pulling? Also did you ever make the slide video? I would love to see it.
Great video thanks for taking the time . ok so my all time favourite film ever has always been Ektachrome I've shot it for the past 20 years and was so pleased with kodaks reintroduction of it and when I saw your intro and saw some boxes of it I was looking forward to picking it out of your lineup. So I watched the video and and i was looking for a frame that would blow my socks off usually ektachrome always does and a perfectly exposed ektachrome shot is like nothing else it really stands head and shoulders above any other for its gorgeous saturated look and none of the shots in your lineup kinda did closest was E or B. Then you reveal you didn't put Ektachrome in the lineup yet you did shoot it and you have it in your video at 20:33 and by god is it the best of the whole bunch. I really hate how the reversal films are pitched as being difficult I gave a friend a pentax ME Super with TTL metering pretty much all shots gained were good its not that hard!!!! Anyhow moral of the story shoot ektachrome then you can scan your film and project it as well!!! Unlike all the others I feel like I'm there and the sun is setting behind me at that location!
I've settled to shooting b&w negative and just color slides. I process and enlarge everything myself. While wet printing slides is VERY hard these days, they give the best rendering of landscapes and animals alike, which is what I do with my big glass.
Were those Konica Auto S2s? I learned to take Pictures on one of them in the 70s, when I was Preteen. I didn't get an SLR until 1981
Hi, I loved this video, it really helped me out! Can you shoot with Ektar 100 in Low Light? How will it perform?
wow. this was extremely helpful.
thank you, this video helped me so so so much. i've been shooting film less than a year but been getting jobs and feeling like I really need to learn as much as I can as quickly as I can. this felt like going back to school! thank you kind sir
Hey so it’s REALLY frustrating (as someone who took the time to do the blind scoring) that you show film stocks in the intro that are not part of the test. I expected to see Pro Image in there for example.
Man I would kill for that hoodie. I feel the same about ewwwktachrome (lol) and Ektar, but shoot that hoodie is undeniably smoking cool.
Wrote every one I likes the most on every sheet. Turns out I like everyoneat some point, haha...sooo.
This is how many times I chosed what:
A: I
B: II
C: II
D: II
E: II
F: I
G: II
H: II
SOOO, lol.
So based on the blind test I like Fujifilm? But then looking at the review results it all does indeed look a bit too green for my liking... Guess I hate the magentas on skin from Ektar way more.
Is Fuji c200 still made? Only found expired online and looking forward to slide film video!