What film?

[Frog]

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.

[Xia_Ke]

Woohoo, another film person 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, you can see a wide variety of shots taken with different films.

[Greg McCary]

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.

[Frog]

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.

[Greg McCary]

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

[Frog]

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

[another view]

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.

[Frog]

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

[freygr]

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.