Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter, I am still shooting a lot of Velvia on things that do not include people...really great for that. But have gotten tired of the "Pumpkin Head" syndrome that velvia gives most cacusains....I have since switched to E100VS...really like the look of that stuff even better than the E100SW, IMHO. But with all the hype on the new provia (refering to the hype from Fuji here not the LUL comments--spoke to BillPrudner this week and he was going on and on about the new Provia....maybe Sunday at the Panthers game I'll see my buddy from Fuji and talk him out of a few rolls of it.) I am curious as to how it renders skin tones. Did a side by side shoot last week of students in a High School nursing class for one of our Magazines. I lit the scene with White Lightning Ultra 1200's and shot first E100VS then Velvia...the winner for skin tone and clean whites with saturated colors was E100VS...even my fellow photographer who thinks Velvia is the only film made agreed and we ordered 50 rolls of VS..still ordered 200 rolls of Velvia also...but at least now I have an option when shooting people. On 9/24/99 9:23 AM Kotsinadelis, Peter (Peter) wrote: >Harrison, > >Hope you don;t mind but I would also like to answer this. The E100VS is >good but too too saturated when you include skies. The Provia 100F is more >natural and renders a real blue sky (as opposed to a super saturated blue >sky produced by VS). Overall the colroing is slightly less than E100SW but >very accurate. > >Peter K Best regards, Harrison McClary email: harrison@mcclary.net http://www.mcclary.net preview my book: http://www.volmania.com