Anyone using Koday UC 100?

[Gray Fox]

I love the colors of the 400UC, but would like the fine grain of a slower film. Does anyone have experience using the Koday 100UC?

[julianphotoart]

I use it pretty regularly. It's quite high-contrast and vivid. I've had 3 different developing labs generate unacceptable prints because the combination of the film's high contrast and the machines' settings just make the contrast too much to bear. One has to find a lab that can set the machine to NOT adjust or correct anything. This might sound like stating the obvious on RFF. I don't know. All I know is that when using regular consumer-grade 100-speed films like Kodak "Gold 100" and the like, the labs' "auto" settings don't have the same effect as when UC100 is run through.

[Doug]

Film allows extraordinary detail and sharpness; I like it but due to relatively low speed I haven't used it much.
(here used in Contax G2, 35 Planar)

[bigdog]

Kodak 400 UC is my favorite 400 speed color film. When I want a fine grain 100 speed color negative film, Reala gets my vote. It is low contrast, but that is fine with me since I normally use this film under high contrast outdoor lighting and I can bump up the contrast if need be after I scan in Photoshop.

[fuwen]

I use it pretty regularly. It's quite high-contrast and vivid. I've had 3 different developing labs generate unacceptable prints because the combination of the film's high contrast and the machines' settings just make the contrast too much to bear. One has to find a lab that can set the machine to NOT adjust or correct anything. This might sound like stating the obvious on RFF. I don't know. All I know is that when using regular consumer-grade 100-speed films like Kodak "Gold 100" and the like, the labs' "auto" settings don't have the same effect as when UC100 is run through.

I am also having problems with UC100 with my colour lab. While they have no problems with the VC160 I used previously, I am having quite a lot of colour issues with UC100. I was about to give up but fortunately they managed to hit the correct settings for the film. However it seems like I need to overexpose a stop, and they need to adjust on their optical machine -7 for yellow, +2 for magenta and +3 for density.

Anyone else has the same experience?

[sepiareverb]

I've had problems with color too- I always ended up with weird casts in the red tones- they tend to get a touch purple like the thumbnail above- you do have a very nice red in that sunlit part of the roller Doug- better than I ever got. You might try the Portra 160 VC- I've always had better results with those films from Kodak- tho again, reds seem to be the hard part for Kodak.
I've just had to find a new lab since Fleshtone Miami closed or is about to. I'm trying LTI in NY right now with a few rolls- which may be back tomorrow.