Kodak Portra 160 Review - 'Sunny Portraits'

Our Kodak Portra 160 review combines the community's comments, recommendations, sample images and feedback to give you an excellent overview of Portra 160 film's strengths and weaknesses!

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Kodak Portra 160 is the slowest of the Portra family - with Portra 400 and 800 1 and 2 stops faster respectively.

Similar to Portra 400, it replaced a film range called ‘Vericolor’ in 1998 - and was originally produced in two different flavours. ‘Natural’ colour and ‘vivid’ colour. The current emulsion of Portra 160 - which combined the best technology of the two variants into one single film - landed in market in 2011, a year after Portra 400 made the same journey.

It is of course a portrait specialist! The skintones that you would expect from any Portra film, but what the 160 brings on top is a clarity and detail that comes from slow speed films. So when you look on-site at the reviews you can obviously see quite a few portraits, particularly outside on lovely sunny days/evenings, but you can also see lots of nature photos, some outside still-lifes - and people talk about the flexibility that gives them on a walk or holiday - to shoot people and landscapes and get brilliant results for both.

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[FRONTPhotography]

As someone who reaches for Portra 400 8/10 times, its nice to have some feedback on 160! :)

[SinaFarhat]

Nice! :)
I hope that things calm down with the virus in Sweden so that I can in a more relaxed state visit my city centre and shoot some colour film showing the springy aspects of the plants waking up and seeing more green leaves!
Keep up the good work!

[tobyclbain]

I love portra 400. I've just ordered a roll of 160 from you guys especially for the sun!

[themillionpman]

How right you were about the weather by the time I got to watch this haha

[batworker]

Currently very grey and with the wind here in the Cotswolds it feels like we’ve been sent to Siberia 😹😹

[bjornwennstrom]

Whats the colour saturation like compared to 400?