Fuji PRO160S and PRO160C
Fuji Pro 160S/C
Fuji’s latest colour negative films, PRO160S and PRO160C, recieved much praise from professional photographers and really they aren’t too bad at all. They replace the already excellent NPS/NPC series but with improved emulsion that is especially easier to scan.
The “S” type is a very smooth film with gentle tones and accurate rendition of greys and skin tones, making Fuji PRO160S ideal for portraiture. If you like more puncy negatives, the PRO160C offers more vivid colours and higher contrast making it a more versatile film for a range of applications, from portraits to architecture. Both films are rated at ISO160 and as such offer fine granularity and high resolution which is to be expected of a modern film.
Fuji PRO160S and PRO160C Key Features
- Smooth, natural reproduction of skin tones.
- Pro 160S offers a gentler tonal curve, while Pro 160C features high contrast and saturated color.
- Unsurpassed gray balance; gray tones are reproduced with neutrality and accuracy.
- Significantly finer grain structure. The two new films boast even finer grain than their predecessors, with an RMS granularity of 3 (vs. 4 for the current NPS 160 and NPC 160). The result is notably smoother, richer-looking prints, especially at larger sizes.
- Single-channel printing. All four films in the new Fuji Pro line, despite their differences in speed and contrast, can now be printed in a single print channel. This simplifies the adjustment of print density and color balance, making it easier and more efficient for labs to provide photographers with quality prints.
- Optimized for digital scanning and printing. These films bring the information-carrying capacity of color negative film into an easy and efficient digital workflow. By combining excellent tonal qualities in a wide exposure range (-1 to +3 EV) and exceptionally fine grain, the scanning characteristics of Pro 160S and Pro 160C in digital printing systems, such as Fujifilm’s Frontier digital lab system, dramatically improve. As a result, superior scanning consistency makes post-scanning color correction and retouching easier than ever before.
- Generous exposure latitude. The Fujicolor Pro films’ characteristics of wide exposure latitude (-1 to +3 EV) produce excellent gray balance, skin tone rendition, and overall color balance, delivering competitive results with normal basic exposures.
- 4th Color Layer Technology to simulate human color perception. All of the Fuji Pro films incorporate Fujifilm’s proprietary 4th Color Layer Technology. The addition of a fourth cyan-sensitive layer to the typical RGB sensitive layers helps simulate accurate color as the human eye perceives it. Fujicolor Pro films reproduce delicate skin colors, neutral colors and deliver exceptionally consistent color balance regardless of light source - daylight, tungsten, fluorescent, flash, or mixed lighting.
Four New Films
- Fuji Pro 160S
- Fuji Pro 160C
- Fuji Pro 400H
- Fuji Pro 800Z
Film Structure
With its ultra high saturation and extremely fine grain, Fuji Velvia has been a favourite of photographers for years. It has been the slide film of choice for landscape work due to its unrealistic but intensely vivid colours that work particularly well when shooting the outdoors. It’s excellent sharpness and detail resolution allow for large format printing without loss of quality. On the downside, this film is rather slow and you’d almost certainly need to carry a hefty tripod along to allow for longer shutter speeds.