Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/25
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Robert,
Let me get this straight. You had an opportunity to shoot two beautfiul
models and you opted to use the 400 2.8. You opted to get FARTHER away from
them! I think I might have used my 19 :").
Gary
Robert G. Stevens wrote:
> Harrison:
>
> I was shooting some outside portraits at a seminar last weekend and I
> happend to have ahlf a roll of E100VS in the camera. Although the images
> are mediocre, it does give an idea of the skin tones on E100VS. They are
> on the bottom of my misc page of my website. The fox picture was also on
> E100VS. BTW, the fox was shot with the 105-280 at about 280 and the girls
> were shot with the 400 F2.8 at F2.8 or F4 with a fill flash.
>
> I liked the E100VS so much when I tried it in Calgary a few months ago
> that I ordered in a 100 foot roll of it. I think it deals better with the
> shadows than Velvia. In the fox picture, you can see some detail in his
> dark den behind him. With Velvia, this would be inky black.
>
> http://home.istar.ca/~robsteve/photography/Misc.htm
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> Regards,
>
> Robert
>
> At 10:49 AM 9/24/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >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
> >
> >
> >