I'm Hungry and I Don't Know Why
Written: Aug 15 '02 (Updated Sep 03 '02)
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Pros: Fine grain, excellent color. Made by pixies?
Cons: Can be hard to find
The Bottom Line: If you can find this film, if you just happen upon it and if you like to have realistic images. Don't hesitate.
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| roger1250's Full Review: Fuji Superia Reala 100 135-24, 100 ASA (CS13524) |
Fuji Superia Reala ISO 100 Color Negative Film is by far the highest quality premium print film on the market today.
It has super fine grain which is very important if you like to enlarge your photographs. I have many 8"x10" prints that are as smooth and sharp as a 4"x6" proof. And though I haven't made any 11"x14" prints with this film I am sure that if it were exposed with a decent prime or excellent zoom lens in front of it, they would be of equally high quality.
It also has the rare ability to reproduce ALL colors accurately and vividly.Most impressive is the film's ability to render purples without losing detail in subjects like flowers. Of course this film can also take credit for being one of the first to not over-saturate the colors red and yellow as well. Not long ago photographing a rose or a daisy with standard color print film was a "anybody's guess is as good as the cameras exposure meter" kind of thing. It was either hit or miss based on the angle of light in the scene.
But grain and color aside there is another, almost inexplicable, magical quality that this film has. When I look at prints made with this film; it's like looking upon a scene in living reality through a window, but one in which the scene is stopped in time. There is just something about this film that makes the images captured on it seem like you not only pressed the shutter release of your camera to make an exposure, but you also cut the subject out of the world and took it with you. I get this erie feeling sometimes that I should go back to the place I made an exposure and make sure it really is still there...
Nevertheless, I have had this film processed on both a Fuji Frontier system using Fuji Crystal Archive paper and on an AGFA machine of some kind using Matte Kodak Royal Gold paper. Both processes with the film produced excellent results but in my opinion, to get the full benefit of this film's potential, the Fuji Frontier on Fuji paper is the way to go. I have never been inclined to take this film into a discount store for quick and cheap processing so I can't say what kind of results one would get if the choice to use a discount store lab were made.
It is unfortunate that this film is not a secret and that it is so popular one needs to be "in good with the man" to get more than the last 2 or 3 rolls at a time. And that's after you've gone to about as many camera shops looking for it. Oh well I guess the bright side is that you get to go on a quest for treasure every time you run out of it. And it is definitely worth every minute one may spend looking as well.
Recommended:
Yes
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