Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Eric Welch wrote: > > At 11:20 AM 11/10/99 -0800, Mark Rabiner wrote: > >The Fuji Professional films are being used by National Geographic we > >learned in > >Chicago. > > Mostly the chrome films. At a recent seminar I was at, Ken Kobersteen, the > director of photography at National Geographic, said that they shoot about > 95+ percent chrome film, and whatever the photographer wants to use. > Kodachrome included. Though Fuji is definitely popular. > > Eric Welch Ask him next time you see him about the use of the high speed color neg films for tricky low light situations. The Fuji 800 I was mentioning. That is the impression our National Geographic lecturer gave us, that it was not just him but other's on the magazine using the stuff. I was certainly surprised to hear that they would use color neg. But it makes sense in this digital age. Mark Rabiner