Hi,
Good, as mentioned in the other message, here's a brief reply to the "green
Provia F thread" (without knowing what has been said about it already)...
Recently I tried a role of Fujichrome Provia 100F.
So, did I, I've tried and seen results of two rolls, and yesterday I
finished a third roll...
This film was praised a lot on this list, so maybe I should say goodbye to
the good old kodachromes too...
Well, I probably will not.
As an interesting side track, yesterday I nearly finished a roll of K64 that
Giles generously gave me. Unfortunately I was stupid enough to forget to
turn the ASA dial to 64, so it was still at 100 (an error I hardly ever
make), anyway, the film has not been sent in yet, so it'll be a push
processing then...
Either way: it should be interesting to have a comparison of these two films
with pics taken the same day (though not of the same subjects)...
Yes, Provia 100F does have an extremely fine grain (better than K25!)
Seems "fine" to me, as far as I could tell with the projector I used...
and a higher sensitivity (ISO100 compared to 25 or 64).
Yes, most handy :)
But the ugly green Fuji box still seems to infect the film too: like
earlier fujichromes I find this film having to much green everywhere. Even
in the skintones: people tend to have yellow fever.
I've taken a look at your pictures and they do look somewhat greenish,
however, as these are scans this can also partially be a scanner problem.
Either way, the pics I've seen so far of my own didn't seem to have any
green cast whatsoever (or I missed it completely): in my experience the
colours look fine and very natural...
And although the grain is extremely fine, kodachromes have a sharper "look
and feel" when projected (confirmed by my wife).
O.k., this is something I don't know as I don't have any comparison material
yet...
Do I stand alone with this opinion or did I had bad luck with the E6
developement (processing was done by an ordinary laboratory, not a
professional one)?
Mine were processed by an El-Cheapo big central (CeWe Color), through the
notorious chain of "Kruidvat" stores; processing looked fine to me.
On the other hand, scanning the slides results in much better pictures.
Kodachromes loose a lot of there brilliance when scanned, while the Provia
looses its ugly green tint.
So do you mean to say that the real pictures are even greener than the ones
on your page? Wow, that's terrible and nowhere near my experiences... Hmmm,
you don't happen to have one of the "green-cast-viewfinder-OM-40s" right?!?
;)
I am very interested in your opinion!
And I'm very interested in hearing the opinions of the others too, I'll take
a look at the digests I still have...
Cheers!
Olafo
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