Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/01/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Matt Shonfeld asked: Subject: [Leica] Suggestion for positive film > I am just about to do a shoot in a dark hospital and would like the > flexibility with regards to depth of field. I Ideally would like a > positive film which displays bright and rich colours. I have tried > Fuji Provia and was not too satisfied with the results. Velvia is a > great film for richness of colours but it may be a little too slow. > Any suggestions would be appreciated.<<< Hi Matt, Given there'll be approx. 800 replies or more answering this question hopefully you'll not become too confused. ;-). If I were given this assignment and slides were specified my first re-action would be to try and talk the assignor out of slide film! However, if slides are mandatory, I'd shoot Fuji 800 colour neg and have slides made from the edited material later. It's a piece of cake and a professional commercial colour lab can do this easily and if they're a top line lab you'll not be able to tell the difference between original slide film and slides made from the colour negs. We've done it many times and the slides look great. Some sport stock agencies cover the Olympics and other national sport events shooting all colour neg, make dupe slides for clients all over the world and you can not tell the difference! If on the other hand the photography is going to be used for print media only, there's absolutely no reason to shoot colour slide film under what wont be ideal slide lighting / colour situations. Do it on colour negfilm. But if you're going to blow away every frame using flash, then what the hell it doesn't matter what colour film you use! Slide or neg.! ted - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html