Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Are there any transparency films that are not over-saturated?
From: "Richard F. Man" <richard@imagecraft.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 17:55:56 -0700

At 07:38 AM 7/29/2003 +0700, Mitch Alland wrote:
>I've been using Ektachrome 100S but am increasingly finding it too 
>saturated particularly the way it deepens blue skies, even more than 
>polarized sunglasses do, and turns many photos into "picture postcards." 
>(I don't like navy blue skies). I suppose that the market has been 
>overwhelmingly pushed by the success of Fuji to the saturated Provia and 
>Velvia look. ...

Provia is known to have good color accuracy. My recent pictures on the 
Eastern Sierra may not show it, but I think the sky really did look that 
navy blue :-)


// richard <http://www.imagecraft.com> 
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