Kodak ProImage 100 Quick Review
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2024
- [Ad/Anzeige] In this video, I do a quick test of the Kodak ProImage 100. This 35mm film was first introduced by Kodak in 1997 but mostly sold in hot climates such as Latin America and Asia as there is no need to store this film cold. In 2018, it was released in Europe as well which is reason enough to give it a try.
Some people claim that the film's characteristics are somewhere between Kodak Gold and Kodak Portra, others that its between Ektar and Portra. The official packaging promotes neutral skin tones and that the film is well-suited for portraits, weddings, and social events.
If you're interested in the film, you may purchase it here in Europe:
www.meinfilmlab.de/en/produkt...
If you'd like to get in touch or see some early behind the scenes footage, find me on Instagram: / analog_insights
YESSS so good to see another one of your insightful reviews, especially for an underrated film that I'm a big fan of for its great value and performance. Keep 'em coming! -Hashem
Thanks for your thoughts on Kodak ProImage 100 Max. With color negative film, we must always take into account the influence of the scanner operator. It would be interesting to know if your lab has a dedicated channel for this emulsion. Pro film labs take a very dynamic entitiy (film) and quantify it into a static "moment", the JPEG. However, that same film (the original RAW) could have a very different outcome from another lab. The only way to test for that variable is to send your developed film for scanning to several labs.
I shot medium format Portra 400 for years (and it's predecessors) using a large commercial portrait and wedding lab here in the States. At that time, they used a Kodak PVAC, or video analyzer. The operator could see each MF image on screen and adjust the density and color quickly with a trackball before printing the image. It was all analogue. Obviously things have changed, and that person is now a scanner operator. Thanks again for an excellent review!
What an amazing review and film. Much appreciated Max. I have learnt so much about film photography from your channel. Many, many thanks.
Another great review, Max! I'm blown away just by how sharp the eyes are in a lot of your portraits, not to mention that lighting. This got me excited to shoot a pack I just got in the mail after ordering it a month ago (I'm in the States). Cheers!
Where did you order yours from Manuel?,,,I looked tonight on Ebay, and all the sellers are located in China. I'm thinking of ordering a 5 roll pro-pack from the UK...It works out to be around $8/roll though :(
Good to see you again Max!
Great stuff, Max, and thanks for letting me know about this film; it looks really good and it's good to be more aware of the different film "canvases" available, especially in our case that it's now here in Europe.
Great review Max! It became my go-to colour film quite quickly. Very nice rendering like you showed on the greens and skintones! Cheers
wow,long time did not see you,these days I viewed almost all of your episode and learn so much more from you.You know that I like your channel very much and hope to see more content,keep going on max!!!Your fans from China~
Good to see you again!!!
Thank you Max for another great video. I really appreciate that you share your experiences with us. I really like that you shared just a little extra like what speed you set your camera for the photos. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your kind comment. Makes me happy to hear that.
A nice review and lovely portraits...thanks.
It's great to hear the opinion of someone else, this is the only color film I can get a steady supply of and I've been using it since I started with film and I really like the results, I'm glad it's getting to other markets so more people can enjoy it.
Daniel Mendoza Lucky you! It’s really a nice film and I’m glad it’s available here by now as well.
Great to see a new video! Hope the move went well.
Case Potter Thanks for your comment. Yes, the move went well. I love the new place. :)
Very, very nice looking film and beautiful shots. Incredible sharp details.
Nice review Max! I'll have to give that stock a try sometime soon.
Thanks Max! Just ordered a few rolls to try out!
I like how you review this and judge the image quality. Must say the scans are very well executed here.
Great review, Max.🙌
Like this very much, specially the portrait shots. I have shot a couple rolls on the street with Pro Image and am pleased with the results.
Elegant and informative as always, hope you enjoy your new crib.Exceedingly beautiful portraits of the young lady, hard to use the term 'neutral 'skin tones with such loveliness, but we are talking film here.Thanks Max.
Haha. Thanks for your lovely comment, Steve. :)
Very nice review. I saw my local supplier have stocks left for this film. May purchase and give it a try ... By the way, keep up with the great work :)
Great video as always, looking forward to the next one
Thanks for your kind feedback. :)
Nice review. I was given two rolls of expired pro image. Your video will help me expose properly. Beautiful model, a great subject for your video.
Thanks for this very informational video Max. I would definitely love to try this emulsion sometime, unfortunately it is not sold here in the US, but I may try ordering some from Analogue Wonderland in the UK, It's great to have you return to youtube with your insightful videos :)
You will get a 5 pack at 30$ on ebay.
Thank you Agniva, I'll definitely look into that.
Thanks so much guys that you help each other out. I should have mentioned something about purchasing it in the U.S. in the video. Sorry about that. :)
This film is very famous in Mexico...the people used to say... proimage is the portra for the poor people..before 2016 it costs 150 pesos propsck..only 7 Euros for the propacks..now a days it cost 17.5 Euros propsck
Francisco Soberanis I’ve seen it for sale for only $95 (Mexican pesos), and it is still widely available in photographic studios.
I bought this film today. I’m excited to shoot some portraits or maybe long exposures with it. Thanks for the review.
How did it go
Max, you have changed my opinion about this film. I have not liked the look of it before. Your photos are beautiful and the skin tones are so pleasing.
Cool, really glad to hear that. :)
Great review
Max, you have produced a beautiful and elegant video like plenty you've made. I also appreciate the choice of music. The model, camera and lens are superb. I also think that you choose the quality of the light and the background with sensitivity. Was the portrait done under a quiet light ? Do you know how this film react with over and under exposure ? I have also noticed that you use the 85mm 1.8 with seems to produce beautiful blur and the light reflected by the model is impressive. Thank you (you and your partners) very much for your work.
Christian
Dude I just like listen to your talking
You should do a video on scanning film one day, your scans are so perfect. It does so much in the final product of the photo
Nelson M. These were all scanned by my trusted film lab. So no credit to me for this please. :)
Thank you Max for another superb video! That's a really interesting film that I look forward to trying out. Definitely somewhere between Portra and Gold, with beautiful colours..
Your portraits are stunning my friend, the close ups are beautifully sharp on the eyes with superb fall off.. Are you shooting at 1.4 for these shots?
Keep up the great work and I wish you lots of happiness in your new place 😊👍
tony neill Thanks for your kind feedback. I really appreciate it. These portraits were taken with an 85mm lens shot at f/2.5 or f/2.8. This usually ensures for this distance that you get this kind of nice fall off and still have a very sharp “in focus area”.
Oh very nice ... will use that film most certainly! and buy it at myfilmlab of course
I was looking for a 'softer' alternative to Portra, I think I found it, cheers :)
Best Photo Channel there is
Oh my god I'm sorry, I can't get past your voice it's gorgeous
It reminds me a lot of Colorplus 200 (which I liked a lot) but much improved. Skin tones are pretty similar, both are fairly cool and both have the light blue shadows but the grain is much finer and the colors are punchier but still very controlled. It's too bad we can't get it here in the states!
As a USA dweller myself I am so glad that your lament about US availability eventually became wrong. Because if this wasn't around I basically wouldn't have any affordable and decent film stocks to learn with.
beautiful shots my man congratulations. this film seems to be a good proper budget replacement for portra judging by your pictures. one question though: did you expose properly or overexposure? thank you
Hello Max another surprising review, I'm not sure I remember this film. It does have a unique color palette. I've been testing Kodak color plus but I'm not impressed. It makes me curious of how the film engineers manipulated the color renditions of the different films.
Hey Ray, that's a very good question. I was wondering how exactly the color renditions are fine-tuned as well. I might do some research on that at some point. :)
Hello Max I know you like to test different obscure films, I just did a thorough review on my channel of Ultrafine Xtreme BW film in 100 and 400 ISO, its probably the lowest cost BW film out there, I included many image examples and some technical info. youre more than welcome to check out my video if you like. if you do let me know what you think
@MetalDog MetalDog , hello I've been using it about 2 years now and so far all of the rules have behaved consistently, the only time I have problems is if I try something new with development the first time I used it my fixer was exhausted and I was sure it was the film that was the problem.
Good to see you again! How did you meter the portraits? Did you use the built-in camera meter or a handheld incident meter?
Marcel Schepers In this case I mostly relied on the built-in meter and only occasionally checked with my handheld meter as well.
I had curiosity to see and listen a review about the Proimage out of my country, since in my country is one of the cheapest color film, and we are very happy to use it is called the poor Portra hahaha, the film well exposed is very beautiful, and some interesting, this film loves prime lenses, the results may vary significantly from lens to lens, you should try brown skin, is calibrated to perform good results in brown skins just like Portra with white skins. ;)
Great video. When it comes to films like this, I often use the terms "rich" instead of saturated when looking at the colors.
Ah, thanks for pointing this out. I'm not a native speaker after all. ;)
It would have been nice if you could have summarised with a more detailed comparison against other Kodak stock. Especially since you have extensive experience with them.
I hope they bring this film to the states.
you can buy it from latin america. In argentina cost like 4 usdolars
Order it online
great video once again! what did you use to measure the exposure?
David Cuibus Thanks. Mostly the built-in meter of the Canon EOS 30V and occasionally my handheld Gossen Starlite 2 to double-check.
NEW VID!!!!!!
The geek in me wishes you had added a Macbeth card (colour checker) into some of the shots...
Great photography and very high quality images.
Personally I had a so-so experience with thehis film stock. Sometimes it can deliver good results and sometimes it just doesn't. I see no consistency with Kodak pro image. On a good side very nice white balance, usually the easiest of all color negatives I used to adjust levels after scanning. Fine grain with nice structure. Very forgiving with overexposed areas. But it simply cannot replace Kodak portra, color depth and contrast isn't there. Also resolution I receive cannot match pro grade films. So for the money it is priced,it is OK, but not more than this in my opinion.
really enjoyed this video and will give this film a try; please try to list equipment used in the description section of the videos especially the lens - what lens did you use in making these shots? thanks Max
Imran Hussain Thanks for pointing this out. I usually do that but forgot about it this morning. It is also listed at the very end of the video. For the portraits it was a Canon EOS 30V with 85mm f/1.8 lens mostly shot at d/2.5 or 2.8. Hope this helps.
@@AnalogInsights thanks Max
Great colors and sharpness. Just bought one 5 roll package. Great. One question,Which camera did you use?
NBartrina Thanks. I used the Canon EOS 30V with a 85mm f/1.8 lens. It is mentioned in the video and listed at the end though. :)
Sorry. Just realized that at the very end of the video. Thanks!
amazing! how did you meter and develop and scan this? and post work reccomendations?
Kevin Diaz hey there I feel free to answer for max. He normally measures on the shadows (as you should always do when shooting film, except e6), we developed it in the standard c41 process in our lab and it was scanned by myself on a Frontier sp3000. For me those are the best scanners because it comes close to the results you get in the darkroom
Great images with very thoughtful comments! Thank you!
Can you, please, name the scanner that your lab used scanning this film?
Thanks for your kind comment. The photos were scanned on a Frontier SP3000 by my lab.
@@AnalogInsights Thank you for your reply!
Could you then, please, tell me wether that photos post processed or they were just straight scans? The reason I'm asking you for such details is because I get totally different results from the lab which also has the SP3000 scanner.
OrelRussia those photos are not post processed. Our philosophy in our lab is to keep film alive and not adobe programs :) the only thing we sometimes remove with black and white films is dust because here the ice correction is not working. The rest is done via filtering on our sp3000 scanners or noritsu. So it‘s up to the scan operator :) cheers and takecare
@@cocorinna3716 Coco Rinna Thank you, very much! It looks like your service is just great! I wish you lots of new clients and your business succeed in our "digital" age!
Maybe another problem with my scans is because of a poor develiping. To me, it's hard to eveluate negatives by looking them on a light table.
As for the filters you mentioned, are they like plug-ins or you meant just ordinary adjustments in the scanner software?
Your voice is kind of yoga teacher mode jaja nice review
Hello . Sometimes you expose the film you are using for another ISO that is recommended on the box. It would br interesting if you could talk more about that, what the reason is and what to think about ISO and different films
Thanks for your comment and please excuse my late response. That's indeed an interesting topic. Sure, I can try to dedicate an episode to that sometime. In a nutshell: It's about bringing out different colors/qualities of a film by overexposing it. This works particularly well for color-negative films, especially Kodak Portra 400 and Fuji Pro 400H. Hope this helps.
Great review :) I found a place in Mexico City were they sell this film for 3 usd per roll!
donde???
Vyorsa :)
Daft question. You said it was shot at 80iso. Did you process at 80 or box speed. Thanks
Any plans to review more cameras in the near future?
Of course, we have a lot of camera reviews in the pipeline. There are some Mamiyas coming up, for instance. :)
Analog Insights hey what do you think about the mamiya press?
You just mentioned sort of accidentally you were using an Canon EOS 30v. These newer film cameras - I use Canon EOS 3 - are often overlooked by film enthusiasts, but they make great pictures with all these new lenses you can use on them! A different look than vintage cameras but they use the full potential of more modern films.
buyaport True that. There’s also a review of the EOS 30V on the channel if you’re interested. :)
@@AnalogInsights Just now watched it :-)
Not sure if it's my laptop monitor but most of the photos seem over exposed for the subject like the model's skin and the swan.
Why is this not on the US market!?
Good question. Kodak should definitely release it on the US market as well.
I love the shots with the M3. Nothing beats a Leica for 35mm format, although I shoot with an Nikon F5.
omg wie gut waren die Film Preise vor 2 Jahren haha
Greens and the looks overall bit like Fuji PRO 400H
Where can I buy this film in the states ? Its beautiful
Unfortunately, it is not available in the States as far as I know. Maybe give eBay or a UK or Latin America import a try.
Analog Insights never mind bought a box of 5 off bandhphotography.com
I suspect a skylight filter would work well with this film, very slightly warming up the images, removing the blue/grey tint.
Are those photos SOOC or did you do some postprocessing?
Dave Hal Please take a look at the other comment and response regarding this question where my scanner Coco responded as well. :)
@@AnalogInsights I actually did! But I only found out that it was scanned on frontier sp3000, no info if you did any postprocessing in Lightroom/Photoshop/etc
Or maybe I'm blind :-)
Dave Hal Ah, great. No, I didn’t do any post-processing.
Its like fuji pro 160s/400h but at iso 100
Wow, this is beautiful! Never heard of this before! Is in 120 as well?
No, unfortunately the film is only available as 35mm film.
@@AnalogInsights :(
All Kodak’s new stocks are only in 35mm which I find weird, medium format and large format is where film really starts to shine.
@@tallaganda83 I think Ektachrome will come to 120, lots of people use medium format
@@jameslane3846 your wish became true
Does anyone know if Pro Image 100 is a t-grain film?
Since this is a c-41 color film. It uses dye clouds. Tabular T-grains are only found in black and white film like kodak tmax or illford delta
@@gobgobcachoo hm, I'm pretty sure Kodak advertises new Portra as having t-grain structure. I wouldn't be surprised if this less expensive stock didn't use such technology though.
That film is really easy to find in Mexico and it is really cheap compared to Portra. It is 1/3 the price
On scanned images, talking about color rendition is kinda pointless. Details on scanning is completely lacking? That is almost as important as the camera you use, as the scanner is a camera that repro photographs the film.
Great price 4 years ago. € 24,50. It is now € 41.50! :(
I would, like to try, this film for free, just to give it a spin.
Thankyou.
Should digital bro , don’t waste more film
Peter how is film wasted when the results are so amazing?