Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/02/19

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Subject: Re: [Douglas.McLernon@tcd.ie: pin holes and news groups]
From: "Charles E. Love, Jr." <cel14@cornell.edu>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 00:15:10 -0500 (EST)

At 08:19 PM 2/19/97 -0500, you wrote:

> My results
>suffered from pronounced color shifts towards green, and it wasn't
>just the lighting.  So I wonder why that wouldn't happen with a long
>exposure in a pinhole camera.
>
>I've seen some people say Velvia doesn't suffer from reciprocity
>failure (see http://atchison.net/gallery/gallery2.htm), but more
>people seem to report the same effects I ran into in exposures of
>about 10 seconds.
>
I use Velvia as my main film, and it does shift a little towards green, but
from my point of view it's still in the acceptable range, even with
exposures as long as a minute.  It certainly shifts less than good old
Kodachrome 64 used to do!--Charlie
Charles E. Love, Jr.
CEL14@CORNELL.EDU