Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Erwin, Very interesting. But why didn't you include Kodak E100s? (My informal tests of E100s against Provira F showed Provira F to have much finer grain, but as you noted for Kodachrome, E100s had much higher acutance and better color reproduction.) Erwin Puts wrote: > When I did a series of tests with K25/64 and Fuji Velvia and > Provia100F (disregarding the saturation issue here), I found that the > graininess impression of all four films (when comparing homogeneous > areas of equal density) was very low and any difference would be > irrelevant for most photographic purposes with high quality lenses > (Leica ) and 35mm film at large scale projection. At this level > differences in graininess are most likely explained by slight > differences in exposure and with all films every possible detail > could be recorded. > The K-films however recorded the same details with a better edge > contrast and details were crisper and delineated with engraving > like edges. Provia 100F had a definitely softer look, but in all > fairness had somewhat less detail definition, compared to Velvia and > the K 25/64.