Found a film I love and hate...

[schrackman]

Kodak Hi-Defiinition 400...love it for indoors & natural light, hate it for outdoors. At least that's what my results were with this roll on the Canonet.

First, the only two indoor shots I took...this picture is of M.L. Hawkins, one of our church members. I took him out for lunch today at Su Ranchito for his birthday. He's now 85. We both had Chile Relleño burritos. :thumbsup:





Now, the outdoor shots...all of them way too grainy for my taste, color was way off, and loss of sharpness. Only one came out decent enough for me to print (the very last one, well, maybe the flag one too), but even that one I had to play with in photoshop to get it to look like you see here.



Is that Venus with the moon?





Venus again?





I get to pick up my Kodak Elite Chrome tomorrow from the lab. Hopefully those will turn out better as I did a lot of outdoor photos with it.

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Kodak Hi-Defiinition 400...love it for indoors & natural light, hate it for outdoors. At least that's what my results were with this roll on the Canonet.

First, the only two indoor shots I took...this picture is of M.L. Hawkins, one of our church members. I took him out for lunch today at Su Ranchito for his birthday. He's now 85. We both had Chile Relleño burritos. :thumbsup:

I get to pick up my Kodak Elite Chrome tomorrow from the lab. Hopefully those will turn out better as I did a lot of outdoor photos with it.

Hello Ray!

I know what you mean about film. I shot very few Kodak films. Kodak Gold 100 is wonderful, and I love Porta 160. Kodak Max left me tremendously underwhelmed with it's performance. Grainy, poor colors and poor definition.

I primairly shot Fuji films. Superia Xtra 400 was my "everyday" film. Fast, great colors and definition. NPH is a great fast film for weddings/portraits. I've only shot Fuji slide films.

Hopefully your Elite Chrome shots will come out well.

I really like the shots of Mr. Hawkins. Very nice.

[Axle]

Kodak HD 400 I actually don't mind the film, haven't really noticed too much grain.


SRT-102 Rokkor-PF 50mm f/1.7 lens with CP filter


X-7A Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 (f/1.7 @ 15 seconds)


X-7A Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 (f/1.7 @ 30 seconds)

[schrackman]

Thanks Robert!

Yeah, I would really like to try Kodak 100...problem is, I can't find it locally. I'll probably have to order some online.

I'd also like to start trying some Fuji color and slide films as well, and after seeing Rick's photos I want to give Velvia a shot too.

My goal is to find what works best with my little camera. I really liked how brother Hawkins' pictures came out too, so the Kodak HD 400 will definintely remain a good indoor film for my camera so long as I can utilize natural light.

Hello Ray!

I know what you mean about film. I shot very few Kodak films. Kodak Gold 100 is wonderful, and I love Porta 160. Kodak Max left me tremendously underwhelmed with it's performance. Grainy, poor colors and poor definition.

I primairly shot Fuji films. Superia Xtra 400 was my "everyday" film. Fast, great colors and definition. NPH is a great fast film for weddings/portraits. I've only shot Fuji slide films.

Hopefully your Elite Chrome shots will come out well.

I really like the shots of Mr. Hawkins. Very nice.

[schrackman]

Wow Axle, those are really nice! What's weird is I took several exposures of the shots I posted, all at different settings, to see which of them would come out best but it didn't seem to matter. Still, all shots except the last one were too grainy and color was off. I'm now wondering if perhaps parts of the roll were defective.

Kodak HD 400 I actually don't mind the film, haven't really noticed too much grain.


SRT-102 Rokkor-PF 50mm f/1.7 lens with CP filter


X-7A Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 (f/1.7 @ 15 seconds)


X-7A Minolta MD 50mm f/1.7 (f/1.7 @ 30 seconds)

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The bright "star" by the moon is Jupiter.

[photophorous]

Hi Shrackman,

Those are some really nice shots! I like your compositions. The moon and jupiter(?) shot is my favorite, but they're all nice.

That's odd about your grain problems. I was going to suggest maybe it was an exposure issue, but if you bracketed, I guess it's not. The first roll I put through my Canonet was Fuji Superia 400, and I was pleased with the results. It was all outdoors. Give it a try. I'm picking up my second roll after work today. I've been trying to do some street photography so I don't expect anything worthy of posting.

Thanks for sharing...again.

Paul

[Canuck935]

I have used HD 400 on a canoe trip in BWCA. It did a nice job. Though I have to say I'd rather shoot Superia 400 because for me it's more predictable, more readily available, and cheaper. I also tried UC 400 and I must say I'll never shoot it again. Really bad grain and unimpressive color.

[schrackman]

The bright "star" by the moon is Jupiter.

Cool! I've always wanted to shoot a planet. Now I can say that I have.

[schrackman]

Thanks Paul!

Yeah, I'm dumbfounded by the results. But like I said, maybe a portion of the roll was bad. Bought it at Walgreens, so who knows..... One of these days I'll give it another shot.

P.S. Please post your Canonet shots, even if you don't think they worthy of posting. I'd really like to see what others can do with the Canonet.

Hi Shrackman,

Those are some really nice shots! I like your compositions. The moon and jupiter(?) shot is my favorite, but they're all nice.

That's odd about your grain problems. I was going to suggest maybe it was an exposure issue, but if you bracketed, I guess it's not. The first roll I put through my Canonet was Fuji Superia 400, and I was pleased with the results. It was all outdoors. Give it a try. I'm picking up my second roll after work today. I've been trying to do some street photography so I don't expect anything worthy of posting.

Thanks for sharing...again.

Paul