You can find 400 speed Fujicolor pretty reliably again, at least around me. 3 pack of 36 exposure cassettes for $25 at B&H. This is my first roll of it but it feels a lot more like their recent 200 with more grain than it feels like an iteration on the Superia style.

There's a sizeable faction of photographers who loathe Superia for its green-cast shadows, especially folks who do portraiture, but I think these people are cowards. The muted color response that New Portra has brought into vogue (leaving any punch to be added in digital post) also made Superia feel like a stock out of time. If you want rich, bold colors now you can still shoot stunt lomo stocks or Ektar, I guess.

None of this is to say it's bad. At half the price of CineStill's 400Dynamic (and with an antihalation layer even!) there's nothing to lose sleep over. But it's getting a lot closer in character to Kodak's UltraMax 400 and.....we already have that. It's called Kodak UltraMax 400.

I didn't squeegee or finger-squeegee these, enjoy the little water spots/calcification all over. This is my fault, and not the film's.


Nikon FE2 / Fujifilm 400 (DX: 906284)
CineStill C-41 (3m:30s @ 102F)
Konica Minolta DiMAGE SE5400II => VueScan => NegativeLabPro 3.0.2

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in reply to @boodoo's post:

they haven't confirmed one way or the other, which is weird since they've been gleeful in announcing the deaths of some other stocks, but it's not branded Superia anymore and the wavelength sensitivities on the data sheet have some significant differences from the Superia Xtra 400 ones