Films

Kodak Portra 800

Kodak Portra 800 in Trichroma Lab: 4 frames on 120, developed in Trichroma Lab; a negative beside a Fuji Frontier SP‑3000's own scan of it; a negative converted in both Negative Lab Pro and Trichroma Lab.

Below them, the film's base as the app measures it, and what the app does with that number.

Frames on Kodak Portra 800

Developed in Trichroma Lab and exported as they are — nothing was done to them after the export. Under each: the format, and the camera and lens it went through.

A black-and-white cow with yellow ear tags looking straight at the camera through tall grass.
Kodak Portra 800120 · 6×7 · Pentax 67 · 90mm f2.8
Black-and-white cows in a meadow of tall grass beneath a tree and a cloudy sky.
Kodak Portra 800120 · 6×7 · Pentax 67 · 90mm f2.8
A herd of black-and-white cows grazing a green pasture under an overcast sky.
Kodak Portra 800120 · 6×7 · Pentax 67 · 90mm f2.8
A field of young maize under a grey sky, a farmhouse and trees on the horizon.
Kodak Portra 800120 · 6×7 · Pentax 67 · 90mm f2.8

Kodak Portra 800 on a Frontier SP‑3000, and from a camera

The same negative twice: the lab's own scan, and three narrowband exposures developed in Trichroma Lab, cut to one frame with the same crop and the same compression. All six pairs, and how each was made.

A frame on Kodak Portra 800, scanned on a Fuji Frontier SP-3000.
Frontier SP-3000
The same negative, developed by Trichroma Lab from three narrowband exposures.
Trichroma Lab

Narrowband RGB · 665 · 525 · 455 nm

Made between late August and late September 2026, and not re-rendered with every release.

Kodak Portra 800 through Negative Lab Pro, and through Trichroma Lab

The same negative converted in both programs and cut to one window. Both were finished by hand, the way you would finish a roll; neither half is a default conversion. All four pairs, and what each started from.

A frame on Kodak Portra 800, converted by Negative Lab Pro from a white-light raw.
Negative Lab Pro Frontier
The same negative, developed by Trichroma Lab from the same raw.
Trichroma Lab FRONTIER

Same raw · Fujifilm GFX100S · white light

The film base, measured

The bare, unexposed film around each frame — the clear rebate — measured in density on the station Trichroma Lab is calibrated on: under narrowband light at 665, 525 and 455 nm, and under white light through a Fujifilm GFX100S. The light let through is the same reading put the other way round: ten to the minus density.

RedGreenBlue
Narrowband, density0.50 D0.72 D1.00 D
Narrowband, light let through32 %19 %10 %
White light, density0.48 D0.69 D0.90 D
Other rolls sat up to0.010 D0.131 D0.071 D

Read these as this station's numbers rather than the film's in general: another camera or lamp measures another base for the same film, and two rolls of one stock, developed apart, read apart too — which is why the app grades your roll on its own base wherever it can read it.

What Trichroma Lab does with it

Under three narrow bands, with a flat, it never asks which film you shot: your roll's own base is read off its rebate. This entry comes in when the film is named — under white light, where you always name it, and on a roll whose own base could not be read. It is listed as “Kodak Portra 800”, and under white light your roll's own base tunes it to your development batch. Narrowband or white light · how trichromatic scanning works.

Other films

Kodak Portra 400 · Kodak Portra 160 · Kodak Gold 200 · Kodak Vision3 50D · Kodak UltraMax 400 · Lomography Color Negative 400 · Opticolor 200 · Kodak Vision3 250D · Kodak Vision3 500T · Kodak Gold 800 · Fujifilm Pro 400H