Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I'm with Hennin on this. The E100s and SW are great. I think I like the E200 best. I just shot a bunch of kitchens for the rich and famous and used the E100 s and SW with mixed daylight and tungsten and some of the fluorescent just to really screw with my brain. I was amazed that the 100sw did not come out yellow especially with the tungsten fill hot light I used. Really amazing . .I was sweating till I saw the film! Looked better than the 160 NC I shot as a backup by far! Al Stegmeyer upstream photography & www.upstrap.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Henning J. Wulff" <henningw@archiphoto.com> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2000 2:33 AM Subject: Re: [Leica] Re: velvia vs. provia > At 10:41 PM -0500 5/16/00, Harrison Mcclary wrote: > >once upon a time Jim Brick wrote: > > > >> Provia is a mild Velvia at ISO 100 instead of 40. Less saturation, more > >> tolerant of exposure variances, whites are cleaner, skin is truer, etc. For > >> 35mm handheld photography, I prefer Fuji MS 100/1000 at 200. My Fuji rep > >> says that Provia F at 200 will be even better. He gave some to me but I > >> haven't tried it yet. > > > >And even better are the new Kodak E100 films, 100SW, 100VS and 100S. I tend > >to shoot mostly 100SW and 100VS. Velvia is just way too contrasty for my > >tastes and I have shot untold thousands of rolls of Velvia over the last 6 > >years...the magazine company I worked for only shot velvia...finally just > >before I quit I got them to start shooting some Kodak films. > > > >I really like those new Kodak chromes and the new Portra ain't bad either. > > I really dislike those 'me too' posts, but I can't pass this up: > > ME TOO > > Velvia has no toe. It's very contrasty in the first place, and then there > is no detail in the blacks whatsoever. On the other hand, it handles > highlights well. That's why people shoot it at the same EI as Kodachrome > 25, which handles shadows beautifully, but can't stand overexposure. If you > shot a contrasty scene using the same camera settings with both Velvia and > Kodachrome 25, there would be shadow areas that would show a lot better on > Kodachrome, in spite of the fact that it is an ISO 25 film vs. 50 for > Velvia. > > I find the new Kodak film a great compromise between realism, reasonable > toes and shoulders, choice of greater color saturation or more subdued > tones, and warmer and cooler films all with the same speed and generally, a > compatible look. I don't like Provia and Velvia together; in fact Velvia > does not do well with any other film in my estimation. > > For negative film, I use nearly only Portra now, except for some Konica > Impresa for the sharpest and some Fuji NHGII for the fastest with decent > quality. > > * Henning J. Wulff > /|\ Wulff Photography & Design > /###\ mailto:henningw@archiphoto.com > |[ ]| http://www.archiphoto.com