When skiing, I always used Kodachrome 25. It had
excellent results with snow, and has a little more
exposure latitude so it does not wash out in bright
areas. Second close choice would be K64.
--- "John A. Lind" <jlind@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 18:07 7/27/01, JAmes Olson wrote (in part):
>
> >does anyone have experience with the fuji and kodak
> 100 speed slide films
> >in any similar situations? or just opinions on
> slide films you enjoy in
> >this speed area...
> >
> >it is all subjective, obviously, but i'm fishin'
> for opinions.
> >
> >james.
>
> Greatest color accuracy among films I've used go to
> Kodachrome 64, Fuji
> Provia 100F, Fuji Astia, and Ektachrome EPN-100. Of
> these I would readily
> use Kodachrome 64 or Provia 100F as they have
> moderate saturation which I
> prefer for most photographs. I would use Fuji Astia
> if I'm after
> restrained saturation, which isn't very often.
>
> Films I would not use (and why):
> a. Fuji Velvia:
> More saturation than I care for, but do consider it
> better than E100VS (see
> "e" below). Not as bad with flesh tones as E100VS,
> but still not that great.
> b. Ektachrome EPN-100 (no consumer version):
> Very restrained saturation (silmilar to Astia in
> this respect). Might be
> great for catalog work, but its colors seem "flat
> and drab" compared to Astia.
> c. Ektachrome E100S (consumer version is Elitechrome
> 100):
> Moderate saturation but noticeably lacks color
> accuracy.
> d. Ektachrome E100SW (no consumer version):
> Same as E100S except a "skylight filter" is built
> into it to make it
> warmer. Doesn't make sense to me. On the occasions
> I want warmer I'll use
> a skylight 1A, but I don't want everything that way.
> e. Ektachrome E100VS (consumer version is
> Elitechrome 100 Extra Color):
> Extreme saturation at great expense to color
> accuracy; IMO more than
> Velvia. Seems that when it saturates, it does so to
> the same color; in
> particular I've noted it has a singular shade of
> red. Absolutely no good
> for flesh tones.
> f. Ektachrome E200 (consumer version is Elitechrome
> 200):
> Has very nearly the fineness of grain structure as
> E100S, and is the ISO
> 200 version in all other respects, including why I
> don't care for it.
> g. Kodachrome 200 and all ISO 400 (and faster) E-6
> films:
> Aside from anything else I might like or dislike,
> the grain structure of
> these is not fine enough for me. Some swear by
> Kodachrome 200, and its
> color accuracy is very high, but it is quite grainy
> compared to Kodachrome 64.
>
> -- John
>
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