Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hoppy wrote: "Oliver, these have a stack of interesting local detail. I'd like to sit in that cafi with the panoramic view. I'm not familiar with that film but these seem to be a little cool, light and restrained in colour? Maybe I've overdosed on Velvia of late? Cheers Hoppy" Thanks for looking and commenting. Optima 100 is probably closer to the opposite end of the scale from Velvia when it comes to saturation. My eye-brain system sees highly saturated scenes usually at higher elevations, and IME Optima renders the colors there accurately. I selected Optima about 20 years ago from among several color negative films when I was doing MF landscape work in the Colorado Plateau country, the High Sierra, and the Rockies. Think about the saturation of the tiny wildflowers in the mountains or the reddish sandstone, deep blue skies, and white clouds of the American Southwest. Professional color printers have told me consistently that Optima is an outstanding material and that it was entirely the fault of Agfa's on-again, off-again marketing that the film did not do as well in the American market as it could have. But I digress. Too bad it's no longer being made. Oliver