I gave my son my Chinon CP-7 a while back and he's talking photography more and more.
I also gave him the rolls of film I had which included some iso 800 but I don't remember what brand. He says the pics didn't come out very good with it but I haven't seen them to know what the problem is.
He's asked me about film and all I could tell him was that I used Kodak Gold for people and Fuji something for nature/outdoors.
I'm pretty sure there have been some changes since the 80s so I'm curious what I should suggest to him. The camera still works fine, though I have another CP-7 that doesn't.

Woohoo, another film person :D What type of film is he looking to shooting? Color negative, slide film, b&w, etc? In my EXTREMELY limited color film experience, I was really happy with Kodak Portra 800 and for slide film, there's various Kodak Ektachrome films or Fuji Velvia seems to be very popular. Take a look here (http://www.pbase.com/cameras), you can see a wide variety of shots taken with different films.

I use Kodak Gold and also Fuji. I wouldn't shoot anything over 400ISO though. I also had good luck with Fuji 200ISO too, it had less grain than the 400.

Thankyou Aaron and Greg.
He's shooting color negatives right now. He's talked about photography with me off and on and the only one of my 3 sons who has shown any interest which is why I gave him the camera. He doesn't have a computer so I'm probably going to get him a book on photgraphy and I think he has a good eye but need to see what he's shot so far to give him any more help.

Get him to join here and you can post a few of his shots.

I would if he had a computer. They're considering it.

If the results are grainy, I wonder if the film was underexposed which is easy to do especially with fast film. The higher the ISO, the less tolerant neg film is of any exposure inaccuracies; especially underexposure. Is there a way to do a +1/2 or +2/3 stop compensation on that camera for next time with high ISO film? I used to get great results with Portra 400NC by shooting it at 320 (+1/3 stop) and also being careful with metering.

I think there is but don't remember. It might have been because the film was a few years old, too.

I think there is but don't remember. It might have been because the film was a few years old, too.

I all depends on how it was stored. If it had been refrigerated or frozen film will keep for years. But at room temp it only lasts about a year especially color film, B&W is more forgiving.