Kodak Pro Image 100

I am a Kodak ColorPlus 200 fan and always have a few rolls in my stash, but to mix up my films a bit I decided to give Kodak Pro Image 100 a try. I'm glad I did. Kodak Pro Image 100 was designed for hot and humid climates where film takes a real beating from the weather conditions. Think of the Amazon rain forest, think of Central America or even the jungles of South East Asia. These are the kind of envronments in which Kodak Pro Image 100 thrives.

Admittedly we don't get much hot weather here in the UK, but when we do not even a global pandemic of biblical proportions can stop Brits heading for the coast and topping up their tan. This also means I can happily shoot around town without any distractions. Analogue Wonderland had an offer on Pro Image 100, a pack of 5 for not much more than it would have cost for my favourite ColorPlus, so I hit the button and bought a pack.

When I try a film for the first time I always shoot a couple of rolls before making any kind of judgement or form an opinion on it. It gives me a chance to make sure I get my act together and have a good selection of images to compare. It also allows me to rectify any mistake I may have made and, you guessed it, I made a boo boo.... I shot one roll at 400 iso instead of 100. Oops! 

I was a tad worried about how to get that roll processed and asked for some advice from the folks on the Negative Positives Podcast group on facebook. The consensus told me not to worry about it and develop it as normal. As I haven't learned to develop colour film yet, I gave my friends at Max Spielmann in Wigan the three rolls I shot and they developed and scanned it for me. Should that shop ever close I will be in a right pickle! Lockdown was bad, but I learned to develop B&W film to keep me going until they opened again and had a couple of rolls of ColorPlus to drop in when they did. Support your local businesses folks, they need us now more than ever.

Here are a selection of images from all three rolls of Pro Image 100 that I shot with my Nikon F801 and my Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 D and Nikkor 24 - 120mm f/3.5 - 5.6 D lenses. I deliberately used the same camera and lenses to keep a solid frame of reference for all three rolls of film. I will let you guys choose which images were shot at 100 iso and which were shot at 400. Pro Image 100 gives great colour rendition with fine grain and sits neatly between ColorPlus and Ektar in both price and quality. This also gives you an alternative to Gold 200 for your holidays in the sun photo's. Whatever you ask of it, Pro Image 100 will handle it with aplomb.

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