Herb, I've been using Supra 400 pretty regularly for ~ a year. I think it scans (a bit) better than Royal Gold 400 but the differences are not dramatically obvious to me.
Then I made the mistake of trying Provia100F. I get such better results that I now use it (pushed 1 stop) as my standard film. Compared to the negative films I've tried (RG100, RG400, Supra100, & Supra400) it is grain less. I also find that with slide film I have fewer struggles getting color balance that pleases me . I'm not fond of giving up the exposure latitude one gets with negatives but willingly sacrifice that for Provia's great quality. I almost like it as much as I did Kodachrome 25 though nothing can beat the color rendition of that. So my advice would be get Provia push it one stop and bracket your exposures. -JimD At 01:01 AM 11/21/01 -0700, Herb Bauer wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I'm leaving for my vacation soon, and although I'd like to evaluate my >camera equipment against various films, film processing and digital >post-processing, there's really no time. I'd like to solicit this group's >recommendations for the "best" out-of-the-box color negative film to use >with a Polaroid SprintScan 4000 and PolaColor SprintScan or Vuescan. I have >read good things about Kodak Supra 400 and Fujicolor NPS 160, and the >purpose is mostly hand-held travel pictures under various lighting >conditions. > >Many thanks in advance, > >Herb