[filmscanners] color negative/print film advice

["Sam A. McCandless" <samcc@vom.com>]

I'd appreciate some advice about which color negative/print film(s)
to use for landscape and nature photos. I'll be scanning it in my
Polaroid SprintScan 4000 (not Plus). Or in a modest upgrade of my
SS4000, but not on an Imacon or a Leaf, etc.

I've been scanning Kodak's Supra, because Kodak represented it as
scanning especially well, on my SS4000. But Kodak seems to have
discontinued Supra without replacing it. To replace Supra 100, 400
and 800, Kodak recommends Portra 160VC, Portra 400UC and Portra 800.
But without making much of a case for any of them.

Fuji has two ISO-100 Fujicolor Superia negative/print films, Superia
100 and Superia Reala 100. Reala is presented as a "premium" film and
described in a way which makes me think it scans better and maybe has
more accurate or more neutral or more natural colors. If either of
those is true, I'd pay the premium for Reala 100.

Reala is listed only at ISO 100 while Superia is listed also at 200,
and - with "X-tra" added to its name - also at 400, 800, and 1600. In
addition, there's a FujiColor "Press", not at ISO 100 or 200, but at
400, 800, and 1600. And Fuji's Portrait film, at 160, 400, and 800
and in flavors, like Kodak's Portra. So even if Reala is preferred at
ISO 100, I still can't tell how best to mix and match the various
options at higher ISOs, which I need when I can't use a tripod,
sometimes even with an image-stabilized lens. And I'd appreciate any
advice about the higher ISOs too.

Thanks.

Sam

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