Topic: Royal Gold 400

[DaveO]

   I thought I would go to the zoo today and take a digital and film camera.  I found an old roll of Royal Gold 400 in the fridge and took it out to warm up.  I used to use RG 100 film a lot instead of the Gold 100 because I thought the colors were better.  There was not much a difference in cost either.  Did the new Ektar 100 replace Royal Gold?
   Unfortunately a lot of the old films have been discontinued.  Especially bad was the loss of Kodachrome.
  Anyone recommend a good color film.  I've used Portra 100 and 400 and was very satisfied.

[Paul Mitchell]

Can't say for sure that Ektar replaced Royal Gold but I use it quite a lot and love it. Portra 400 is also becoming a favourite with quite a few photographers.

[astrobeck]

I used to use Gold 200 a lot!

Now, I use Ektar and love it!
It's my goto film for color in all formats.

 

[LEAFotography]

I really like Portra 160. Still trying others...

[Phil Bebbington]

I love the colour from Ektar 100. Long may it be available!

[jojonas~]

I had a bunch of royal gold 200, if I'd compare the colours to anything it'd be portra 160 but maybe it had some of the new ekars qualities too?
on a side note, I've shot a bit of the new portras now and I should really try out ektar more. seems like such a lovely film~ maybe when I'm out of velvia

[tkmedia]

Late 1980's to mid-1990's came the Ektar 50 and Ektar 1000, followed by ektar 125 and old ektar 100. Royal gold replaced these in the mid 1990's with 100, 200, 400 and 1000 iso.

[KevinAllan]

Mostly I use Portra 160 and 400 now. For sentimental reasons I have some Velvia 50 and Provia 400 in stock. Having been given a medium format projector, I want to shoot some 6 * 6 slides to try it out; but for most purposes the Portra is more forgiving and subtle.

I do however have several rolls of Gold 200 which cost about 16p a roll, slightly out of date, but haven't seen any results yet.