Rendering profile
- Sharpness
- high
- Color biases
- warm skin tones, soft greens, controlled reds
- Tags
- portrait, wedding, travel, low contrast
- Best use cases
- portraits, mixed-light documentary work, travel, professional client work
Film stock wiki
Kodak Portra 400
Kodak Portra 400 is a professional C-41 color negative film known for flexible exposure latitude, natural skin tones, and fine grain.
Key specs
- Brand
- Kodak
- Model
- Portra 400
- ISO
- 400
- Process
- C41
- Formats
- 135, 120
- Production status
- In production
- Introduced
- 1998
Grain
fine
Contrast
medium-low
Saturation
medium
Latitude
very wide
Technical details
- Film base
- acetate
- DX codes
- 115334
- Reciprocity
- Consult Kodak technical data for exposures longer than one second.
- Push/pull
- Commonly pushed to 800 or 1600 with denser grain and contrast.
Handling notes
- Exposure
- Rates well at box speed and tolerates overexposure gracefully.
- Development
- Standard C-41 process.
- Scanning
- Scans cleanly with wide highlight recovery.
- Storage
- Refrigerate for long-term storage; allow the roll to reach room temperature before loading.
Profile notes
Portra 400 is a general-purpose professional color negative stock used for portraits, weddings, travel, and everyday documentary work. It handles mixed light and mild overexposure well, which makes it a common recommendation for photographers who want reliable color and forgiving scans.
Aliases
Portra 400Kodak Professional Portra 400
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