I certainly may be wrong on this, but I seem to remember reading somewhere
that Kodak Royal Gold Select is a grade better than Royal Gold.
Help!?! Comments?
Brian P. Huber
bphuber@xxxxxxxxxx
Troy, OH
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Sent: Thursday, June 10, 1999 7:59 PM
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Subject: Re: [OM] Finest grain print film
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>I wonder now that Kodak does not make Royal gold 25 iso film what is
>the finest grain Color print film now made. I am interested in making
>some large enlargements for my walls and would prefer to use print film
>Om content I plan to use my Olympus camera to take these photos.
Kodak:
Among all their consumer (Royal Gold and Gold) and professional (Ektapress,
Pro, Portra, and Vericolor) color negative films, the finest image
structure (grain) belongs to:
[drum roll and trumpet fanfare]
Royal Gold 100
Fuji:
Among all their consumer (Superia, New Superia and Reala) and professional
(NPS) color negative films, the finest image structure (grain) belongs to
(a four-way tie):
[drum roll and trumpet fanfare]
NPS 160
Superia 100
New Superia 100
Reala (ISO 100)
Fuji and Kodak use different methods for measuring the fineness of the
image structure, therefore it was impossible to determine whether the Fuji
or Kodak is finer. Not surprising is the finest grain structure was found
for the slowest film within each family of films. I would suggest you try
several different ones (Royal 100, Superia, and Reala) and decide then what
you like in color rendition and resolution.
Keep in mind the print processer can easily skew the results of any testing
you do if they do anything less than their very best work . . . and
especially can skew color rendition trying to correct. It is *one* of the
several reasons I shoot reversal for nearly everything except those events
I know will demand oodles of prints (such as formal group photographs at
family reunions . . . even the candid stuff at them is reversal). Another
of the reasons is the slower reversal films also have an even finer
structure than the negative films. For example, Velvia has about 25%
greater resolution than its finest resolution color negative films. Based
subjectively on my usage and prints made from the slides(data not
available), Kodachrome 25 and Kodachrome 64 have higher resolution than
any of Kodak's color negative. The resolution of any of these reversals
should be greater than your lens resolution, making the limiting factor the
format (35mm), not the film.
Of course, if you want something the size of what Kodak used to hang in
Grand Central Station, its time to buy an enormous 8" x 10" or 8" x 20"
view camera (which is what Kodak used). ;-)
-- John
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