Yeah. Color inversion is kind of personal taste. There's no truly right way to invert. In my opinion, the grain difference is the determine factor. It's going to be apparent in 135 format. And portra 160 is going to be more available in 135 vs gold. In 120, however, it's hard to determine which to go for. In BH the price difference is so small that I might go for portra as well.
Exactly! It's the joy of the format and that we're in a modern age. It's not just what someone else decided at a Coscto film lab, but what's in your own brain.
You clearly underexposed Portra 160, so this comparison is basically a fail. When you have a film stock of 160, it’s closer to 200iso than it is to 100, so you have to rate it at 200, and with every Kodak color film you basically have to overexpose 1 stop so that it’s not too contrasty and so that you don’t lose basically all details in the shadows. And then, Kodak 500T has a tungsten hue to it, so naturally more green because it’s supposed to be shot indoors and to compensate with the orange/yellow hue of indoor lights, that’s why if you shoot outdoors it’s advised to use an orange filter to display the intended colors of that film stock. With that said, there is no better color film stock than Kodak vision 50d, if you develop it in ecn2 though, every other film stock is either too magenta, too contrasty or simply too saturated. It’s just a shame Kodak doesn’t make 50d for 120 but if there is one color film stock that’s good enough for 120 it’s Ektar 100, which has colors more true than any other 120 color film out there. Cinestill 50d has an orange tint, every Portra stock has a strong magenta tint it’s just awful, and basically that’s all the choices people have with 120 film…
@fredlada1634 You said that he underexposed Porta 160 by rating it at 100, but with film, that's actually overexposure. The camera lets in more light because it thinks the film isn't as sensitive as it really is. So, if you're always setting your films to a higher ISO than they're rated for, you're actually underexposing your shots.
