Recommend me a high speed color 35mm film

[Killerclaw]

I want to shoot off a few rolls of film at my next concert shoot. What would be a good, reasonably priced, high speed color film for me to test?

[sleeping]

You should have asked this 4 or 5 years ago, there’s not much high speed color film made any more…

Fuji Superia 1600 is decent, but I don’t think it’s really quite 1600 – I got better results overexposing a bit (1000 or so)

Kodak’s fastest is portra 800, which I’ve heard is very good, but I have not used it and it’s more expensive.

The highest quality option might be Provia 400x, which can be pushed to 1600 with decent results, but it’s even pricier.

[sleeping]

Or you could get one of these and shoot velvia 50: http://www.dpreview.com/news/0809/08091505leica_50mm_f0_95.asp

[Killerclaw]

So what should it be, superia 1600 or Portra 800?

[soosh]

I love the colors of Portra. I’d go with that.

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