Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, Sounds good! Hopefully I can get hold of some of this stuff soon; I am going to Denmark for the holidays and a good 400 speed film is just what you need in the cold, dark North this time of year. Nathan Ted wrote: > Hi Nathan, > A note on the new Provia 400 slide film: > > It just arrived here in Victoria Friday past and we picked up a 100 rolls > cleaning the store out right away! :-) This is an extremely fine grained, almost > no grain, 400 film. Sandy got some in Seattle a week ago and we shot it right > away. It's a zinger of a film and without a doubt the finest 400 speed film I've > ever seen. > > It also pushed to 800 very well with no appearance of grain. Very nice "natural > looking" colours, not the hyped up Velvia and 100 VS look. Our results were so > conclusive we popped for a 100 rolls as soon as it came in the door of the store! > > And Sandy is off on an assignment to India Wednesday for three weeks taking 80 > rolls Provia 400 as her main slide film, backed up with some 100 SW just in case > for the appropriate place. Not to mention rolls of B&W. > > ted Grant - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch General photo site: http://belgiangator.tripod.com/ Belgium photo site: http://members.xoom.com/wajsman/ Motorcycle site: http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/1704/