Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/18
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]On Sunday, August 18, 2002, at 06:28 PM, fiber wrote: > > > Hi !!! > > I'm going to Ireland in a few days and i would like to know what kind of > film is best (related to price) to make good landscape photos. I have a > Leica Z2X (not the best one but i'm a newbie in photography matters) > and i > think that a DX400 was good enought but a friend told me that maybe is > better to put more money in a better film. ooh, for ireland, velvia all the way. of course, you'll need a tripod to get the best out of it. maybe E100VS for a little extra speed. its greens aren't quite as wonderlicious as velvia's. i actually like its warmth a little more than velvia, but for a place as green as ireland, i'd say velvia. this was taken in northern england (where, incidentally, i stayed in a b&b in hexam with a couple of spaniards who spoke nary a word of english; had a wonderful time. and the woman who ran the b&b went to school with my least favorite beatle, paul mccartney.) on velvia. this scan has NO color enhancement, just contrast. you should see the prints. http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/dunstanburgh.jpg - -- brad daly bwdaly@bigfatpipe.net http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly http://www.bigfatpipe.net/~bwdaly/paw.html "I pledge allegiance to Queen Frag and her mighty state of hysteria." --Calvin and Hobbes "War, what is it good for? It's good for business." --Billy Bragg Bruce Springsteen not only cares about America, he is America, and what's even better, he understands just how fucked up it is and has always been to be an American, the ridiculous mix of the grand and pathetic, the painfully self-aware and the mockworthy clueless spiritual state that has gotten us so far ahead and so sadly behind the rest of the world. --Joey Sweeney - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html