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Best Film Looks for Studio & Product

Neutral, flat renderings that let controlled lighting do the work.

When you control the light, you do not want the film adding an opinion. Studio and product work calls for the flattest, most neutral emulsions — the ones designed as a grading base rather than a finished look. Fine grain matters here too, because these images get enlarged and scrutinised.

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19 looks in this selection

Agfa APX 25

An extremely slow, extremely sharp classic emulsion.

1 rendering

Fuji 160C

Fuji's neutral 160-speed professional negative — cooler and flatter than Kodak's equivalent.

4 renderings

Fuji Astia 100F

The soft slide film — made specifically so slide contrast would not destroy skin.

2 renderings

Fuji FP-100C

The last peel-apart colour film in production — cooler and cleaner than Polaroid's.

21 renderings

Fuji FP-3000B

Very fast peel-apart black and white film with striking contrast.

14 renderings

Fuji Provia 100F

The neutral Fuji slide film: accurate colour, fine grain, high but controlled contrast.

2 renderings

Fuji Superia Reala 100

Fuji's fourth-layer emulsion, built for accurate colour under mixed and fluorescent light.

1 rendering

Fuji X-Trans III Pro Neg Std

A flat, neutral simulation modelled on professional portrait negative film.

1 rendering

Ilford FP4 Plus 125

A classic-grain medium-speed film with long, gentle tonality.

1 rendering

Ilford Pan F Plus 50

Ilford's slowest film: near-grainless, high contrast, demanding.

1 rendering

Kodak Portra 160

The finest-grained Portra: cooler, flatter and more neutral than its 400-speed sibling.

14 renderings

Kodak T-Max 100

Extremely fine-grained tabular film — close to grainless at normal enlargements.

1 rendering

Polaroid 664

Peel-apart black and white pack film with medium contrast.

1 rendering

Polaroid 665

Peel-apart black and white film that produced a usable negative as well as a print.

9 renderings

Polaroid 667

The very fast peel-apart black and white film used for lighting tests.

1 rendering

Polaroid 669

The standard professional peel-apart colour film — the classic Polaroid palette.

11 renderings

Polaroid 690

A higher-saturation peel-apart colour film — 669 with more punch.

16 renderings

Polaroid Px-70

The first Impossible Project colour film for SX-70 cameras — soft, pastel and unpredictable.

16 renderings

Rollei Ortho 25

Orthochromatic film — blind to red, so it renders the world the way pre-1900 photographs did.

1 rendering