Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/14
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric: I think Fuji's pricing is very different about the world. For example, the cheapest E6 film in Canada is AGFA RSX100 at $63 ($40 USD)Canadian a 100 foot roll. Velvia and E100s on the other hand are about $130 ($85 USD)Canadian a roll. Both the Kodak and Fuji films are better than the AGFA, but certainly not twice as good. I have shot quite a bit of the RSX 100 and find it works well for sports and general photgraphy. It has a bit more grain and less sharp than the competition, but for a lot of subjects it does fine. I used it for the NCAA basketball shots on my site and it worked great. As for Kodachrome, the K200 is still awesome and plenty saturated. I also like its grain pattern. I suspect with the development of new K labs, Kodak will introduce a new Kodachrome film. I would not be surprised if it is introduced before the next Photkina, but at the trade show that falls on the non Photokina years. As for Velvia, I have used it a few times and for certain subjects it is awesome. I used it to photograph some signs for a sign company and they were amazed with how sharp it was and how accurate the colour was to the original signs. Signs are saturated and so is the film. I have even ordered a 100 foot roll of it to uses for bird pictures. Here I want the sharpness and the saturated colors. My response to why I don't use it for other things is "Why use a high contrast and saturated film with high contrast and saturated lenses that the Leica has?". Save the Velvia for the Nikon lenses ;-) Regards, Robert Stevens http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/ncaa.htm At 12:50 PM 12/14/98 -0600, you wrote: >Exactly what I'm saying. Kodak has a lock on a technology that gives them >an edge nobody else has, and they have squandered it. Let's hope they wake >up. But they're probably too busy trying to keep Fuji from keeping prices >down to realize anything else. >-- > >Eric Welch >St. Joseph, MO >http://www.ponyexpress.net/~ewelch >