Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In my opinion Provia is better then the new Kodak films. The Provia is better for flowers. But I like the "old" Ektachrome EPP. Kodachrome 25 is very sharp and good for people pictures, but I got magenta skies and the processing is complicate to me. Mickey Rosenthal "Henning J. Wulff" wrote: > At 10:41 PM -0500 5/16/00, Harrison Mcclary wrote: > >once upon a time Jim Brick wrote: > > > >> Provia is a mild Velvia at ISO 100 instead of 40. Less saturation, more > >> tolerant of exposure variances, whites are cleaner, skin is truer, etc. For > >> 35mm handheld photography, I prefer Fuji MS 100/1000 at 200. My Fuji rep > >> says that Provia F at 200 will be even better. He gave some to me but I > >> haven't tried it yet. > > > >And even better are the new Kodak E100 films, 100SW, 100VS and 100S. I tend > >to shoot mostly 100SW and 100VS. Velvia is just way too contrasty for my > >tastes and I have shot untold thousands of rolls of Velvia over the last 6 > >years...the magazine company I worked for only shot velvia...finally just > >before I quit I got them to start shooting some Kodak films. > > > >I really like those new Kodak chromes and the new Portra ain't bad either. > > I really dislike those 'me too' posts, but I can't pass this up: > > ME TOO > > Velvia has no toe. It's very contrasty in the first place, and then there > is no detail in the blacks whatsoever. On the other hand, it handles > highlights well. That's why people shoot it at the same EI as Kodachrome > 25, which handles shadows beautifully, but can't stand overexposure. If you > shot a contrasty scene using the same camera settings with both Velvia and > Kodachrome 25, there would be shadow areas that would show a lot better on > Kodachrome, in spite of the fact that it is an ISO 25 film vs. 50 for > Velvia. > > I find the new Kodak film a great compromise between realism, reasonable > toes and shoulders, choice of greater color saturation or more subdued > tones, and warmer and cooler films all with the same speed and generally, a > compatible look. I don't like Provia and Velvia together; in fact Velvia > does not do well with any other film in my estimation. > > For negative film, I use nearly only Portra now, except for some Konica > Impresa for the sharpest and some Fuji NHGII for the fastest with decent > quality. > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com