Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/15

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Subject: [Leica] Low Contrast Film
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 17:16:24 -0500

LUGnuts -

I'm planning for a trip to the Mosquito Coast in July.  The color 
transparency film that I usually use - Fuji Astia or Provia - is much too 
contrasty for the extremely harsh sun there.  Ordinarily, I love the skin 
tones of Astia and the beautiful greens of Provia, but I've been 
disappointed in the past with the dense shadows and washed-out highlights 
that I've gotten using those films in the impossibly bright light of the 
Mosquito Coast.  Can anybody recommend a lower contrast transparency film 
that I can try out?  I'd love to do only black and white, but that's not a 
choice.

Thanks -

Tina


Tina Manley, ASMP
http://www.tinamanley.com