It allways striked me that most of serious nature phototgraphy (as shown in
nature photography magazines and nature photography contests) is done on
Velvia, some on other Fuji and Kodak is only used by very few nature
photographers. People who don't do nature photography seem to use far more
Kodak and tend to find Velvia unrealistic and flashy.
For my eye (I am a nature photographer and a Velvia enthousiast), Kodak
slides look dull/gray/yellow, not natural at all.
Seems to me that photography "culture" pushes us in percieving the results
of specific films, techniques and tools as "normal". Granularity and
contrast figures don't tell the whole story.
Daan
Pictures of Insects at
www.kalmeijer.net
>
> >It also has an rms diffuse granularity figure higher than Fuji's Provia
> >100F (lower granularity is usually considered "better"), but if you
> >compare their resolving power and MTF curves in lp/mm it explains why
many
> >claim Velvia is "sharper" than Provia 100F; the film's contrast
> >characteristics also influence apparent sharpness (or acuity).
> >
> >-- John
>
> That's of interest. Sometime in the past month I followed a useful link to
> site where A/B's were conducted using Velvia and Provia 100F. I've no
> interest at all in Velvia but I like what I've seen of Provia and thought
> of switching over to some limited work in reversals for just-after-sunset
> shoots around town.
>
> Anyway, the short version is that after studying these A/B's it was fairly
> demonstrated (to my mind and eye, at least) that Provia 100F enjoys the
> higher resolving power, especially in shadows. I think Velvia tends to
look
> like it gives better resolution that is actually the case due to the high
> contrast achieved thanks to super-saturation.
>
> Frankly, I think Velvia is something of a mediocre emulsion. The best
> results from this film I've seen have been when the photographer
> (apparently) tunes the saturation _down_ in software. Then this film
begins
> to show me something. I can do without the all-too-typical canyon and
> lyrical-forest shots, though.
>
> If I stumble across that link to the A/B tests again I'll post it here.
>
> Tris
>
>
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