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This is part of a test roll of Kodak PORTRA 400NC. The setting is near my first challenge picture. The odd combination of decay at the base of a living tree got my attention ... and now yours. I used a tripod, 120 film, medium format camera, 150mm lens, polarizing filter and bracketed by plus/minus 1.5 EV. The lab used normal developing, provided a contact sheet of thumbnails and scanned each image to an 18MBy TIFF. I used Photoshop 7.0 to resize this to 768 wide and a thumbnail 144 wide. Comments please. MGD

I like this one best of the two.... I've found that the Portra NC is great for portraits, great skin tone rendition and Portra NC 400 is my film of choice, especially for children portraits when you need the extra speed , but for landscapes the color seems a bit too subdued for my tastes.... I like the extra pop that richly saturated films will give to landscape photography.... The Portra VC if they still make it, was nice. Not a crit of the work just my own personal thoughts on film...

I would agree with Michelle about the color. I also prefer a more saturated film for "scapes", whether they are sunscapes or landscapes. It would be interesting to see a comparison of the different films. Keep up the good work! :)

@Michelle - > Portra NC 400 is my film of choice ... but for landscapes > the color seems a bit too subdued Agree. @Nilla - > It would be interesting to see a comparison of the > different films Which emulsions? I have a 120 roll of 160VC ... I'll shoot the same scenes and see what happens. Of course, the ambient light values are guaranteed to be different. The lab I have begun to use is a M-F operation. On my return from LI Mon PM, I may be able to drop that roll off for processing and scanning ... then pickup Tue PM. MGD

MGD Whichever films you are experimenting with. I know very little about Medium or large format because I have never shot either of them. But I love to experiment with film and love to look at the different results. Having shot 35mm most of my life, I have experimented with many different films. Right now I have a few different rolls of film to experiment with. Last time I went to the camera shop I picked a roll of Ilford B & W, and a Roll of the Kodak c41 process. So I could compare the two. I also picked up a roll of the Kodak professional film, and a roll of their high definition. I have used kodaks High definition film before and loved the color saturation in it, one of the best I have found. I also picked up from the bargain bin A couple of rolls of Mitsubishi film, never heard of it before, at a dollar a roll, I couldn't resist. I have also done the same thing with Fuji. The only Fuji film that impressed me was their Fujichrome. It litterally blew Kodaks Kodachrome away. On two different occasions (buying from two different vendors) Fuji superia disappointed me, as did the Kodak gold. I just like to experiement and compare results! So it would be fun to compare the different films that you use in your medium format. Brenda :)

Nice pic, looks like the tree in Sleepy Hollow.

@Nilla - > I know very little about Medium or large format Brenda, AFIK, large format is always sheet film (8x10); while medium format can be either sheet film (4x5) or roll (such as 120, 220, or 70mm) depending on the camera. Shooting with a camera that uses 120 or 220 roll film is very similar to shooting with a 35mm camera. For this test, I'm intending to shoot 120 roll film in these 4 Kodak emulsions: 160NC, 400NC, 160VC, and 400VC. However, (goof that I am) I accidentally got the 160NC in 220 instead of 120 and couldn't replace it on Sunday. The comparison shots will be delayed for 2-3 days. Sorry. OTOH, at least I got the area somewhat cleaned up today. MGD

Cool can't wait to see what you've done! :)

Nothing yet. Maybe on Tuesday.

I want to shoot all 4 rolls with the same conditions and same 4 scenes.
I'll shoot 3 shots for each scene to bracket the exposures.
For artistic reasons, I'd like to keep the f/ stop fixed for each scene
(consistent DOF) ... but I don't know if this will cause reciprocity failure in the film.
I will have to shoot all 4 rolls in close sequence to get fairly consistent light.
If I pick an overcast or mostly cloudy day, I won't be too rushed.
OTOH, On a birght day, I would have to shoot between 9 and 11, or 2 to 4 to avoid
extreme lighting changes.

MGD