>At 12:37 AM 6/11/98 +0000, you wrote:
>>
>>I don't have much experience with medium format but in terms of
>>colour print film, Fuji Reala (100asa) is the best I have come
>>across. Very fine grain and superb colour rendition. It is the
>>closest to slide film I have yet encountered in a print film.
>>
>>Giles
>
>Gotta second your opinion, Giles. First roll of Reala I shot, when I got
>it back from the lab, nearly flipped me out. As I've said in other
>contexts, "Colours that reach out and *spank* you!" :-) My wife
>immediately saw the difference, too -- it was family shots of her
>grandmother's house on the beach in Tsawassen, just south of Vancouver,
>Canada (by the ferry terminal to Victoria). Her instant reaction was
>"*Those* are the colours I remember but never got from any other picture!"
>I still shoot other films occasionally, but Reala's become my odds-on
>favourite.
>
>Garth
I have to chime in. I mostly do slides, but the one time I tried Reala I
was stunned by the beauty of the color and the gradation of the prints from
this film. That is what I use now when I want some prints.
Winsor
Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
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