Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Peter Jon White <PeterJonWhite@PeterWhiteCycles.com> >Why not buy a roll of each and try them? For less than $40 you can have far better information about those two films than you can get here. >What possible value could anyone else's opinion have compared to your own, especially when film and processing is so cheap? Perhaps because other people represent a much wider range of experience. I've used Ektachrome for more than 20 years, and thought I knew its capabilities fairly well, but got 'stung' last year when I took a series of photos in the main street of a small town in the southern USA last winter. The entire set was fit only for the dustbin; Ektachrome simply couldn't handle the contrast between the sunlit part of the street and the shadows. From experience I thought I'd get away with it... I know better now. Regards, Doug Richardson In my opinion, Velvia gives every picture that "Warner Brother's Cartoon" look, because of the ridiculously high color saturation. But so what? Nobody should give a flying whoopy what I think. You're the photographer/artist. You're the one making the image. It's only YOUR vision that counts.