Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/03/13

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Subject: [Leica] Color Film and how the Leica changed Everything
From: Marc Attinasi <marc@attinasi.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 23:08:09 -0800

I have for about 15 years preferred slides for color work, particularly 
the slow, fine and contrasty varieties (E64,Velvia, E100S, RDP, K64). 
 That tendency has persisted into the last 3 years, since I have had an 
M6. In the last six or nine months I have been putting negative film, 
which I usually use in my point-and-shoots, into the M6 instead - and 
everything has changed.

 From my M6 the negative film gets such a pleasant color palatte, such 
nice smooth tones, and such a diminuitive grain pattern that I find 
myslef using very little slide film. Worse, when I do shoot slides I am 
finding that the narrow exposure latitude is limiting my shot potential. 
 In short, I think I have mostly switched to negative films for color, 
and it is very different.

My personal favorie right now is Fuji NPS - that film and a 35 or 50 
Leica lens make incredible portraits, snapy candids, smooth and crisp 
still lifes and nice serene nature scenes. I also like Superia 100 and 
Kodak Portra (VC mostly).  Does anyone else have a color negative film 
that they really like? I'd like to try more. Konica was raved about in 
the OM group in years past, but I have not tried it. (Agfa ultra 50 is 
another film I love, but it is quite special in a Lomo or Oly XA even.)

In the long run I hope to shoot a lot of _both_ negative and positive 
color films - I'm glad that I have 'found' negative films now, and am 
finding ways to put them to use making pleasing pictures - picures that 
I just could not make with slide film

Cheers,
- - marc
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