Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Mxsmanic <mxsmanic@hotmail.com> wrote: > I've never shot Astia, although I have a few rolls in the fridge. > I've heard that it is good for portraits, but others say that > Provia is already fine for that. What do you think? I shoot > mostly Provia. The next time I have the opportunity to shoot > portraits, I was thinking one roll of Tech Pan, one roll of > Kodachrome, and one roll of Provia/Astia, but I'm not sure > which one to try. I like Astia's neutral palette. It does a very good job with skin tones but handles everything else well too. Lovely greens. Compared to Provia 100F it's less saturated and less contrasty. Good latitude for a transparency film. A couple weeks ago I was out & about in one of our local metroparks (Detroit area) and overexposed part of a roll by 3 stops or so due to a dud meter battery. (Then the light went on between my ears and Sunny f/16 took over. <g>) Amazingly there was enough highlight detail in the overexposed shots to salvage 'em with the computer. - -Dave-