In my last entry I wrote about my vintage-style shoot with Frida and her 1950 Ford Shoebox and I added some black and white shots shot on Ilford FP4 plus. As I mentioned, I also ran a roll of Kodak Portra 160 through the Ikoflex to really get the Vintage colour feel on some of the images.
The Kodak Portra is a low-saturated colour-negative film specifically made for obtaining the absolute most beautiful skin tones, but I also adore the effect it gives on scenery and backgrounds. With its soft greenish pastel tones it gives the true feeling of a vintage colour shot. The current emulsion was launched in 1998 following the professional Vericolor-series, and it was intended to be used in the professional market by wedding photographers and portrait photographers.
Running a colour film through an old camera with an old lens is always interesting. You never know how the old lens will cope with the colour reflections. It can seem as my Ikoflex enhances green somewhat, and gives a nearly «marine» colour palette.
Again I am very thankful and happy to have a friend like Frida, who is as passionate about vintage and keeping the old alive as I am. Her outfit and car matches this shoot in the most exquisite way, and helps the Ikoflex make the Kodak Portra shine.
Based on the limited shutter speed on the Ikoflex, I had to set my apertures wisely. Because of age, My Ikoflex has only three properly working shutter speeds, 1/300, 1/100 and 1/50. I would also guess that the B-mode works, but I have not yet tried it. Because of this I had to shoot with smart apertures to get the pictures I wanted. The Through the window portrait is shot at maximum aperture F3,5 at 1/100, while the picture next to the car was taken at somewhere between f4 and f5,6 at 1/300 to keep some detail in the background.
No colour corrections are done after scanning. The shots are in colour as the Ikoflex shot them. My only corrections are some contrast correction, and obviously some dust removal.
Thank you for reading. Stay tuned for more fun stuff coming up soon.
Cheap Camera Adventures 
The Ikoflex is a nice camera that can be bought for a reasonable amount of money these days. Image quality should be comparable to Rolleiflex and Rolleicord, depending on which lens the actual camera model is fitted with. I think you should give your negatives a new try with scanning to give them what Portra deserves. The green tint is not Portra-color but added through suboptimal scanner software settings. What scanner and settings did you use?
LikerLiker
It might be a scanning issue. These are scanned using Epson software and maybe that’s what happened. However. I’ve never had this colour tint on portra negatives before from other cameras, leading me to think there might be something with the camera. I’ll give them an extra go. Thank you for suggesting this.
LikerLiker
The colors shown in this post is more representative for Portra films:
https://wordpress.com/read/blogs/116208314/posts/1628
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