At 11:27 AM +1030 2004.01.26, Lars Bundesen wrote:
>I am going to South Africa for a month in two weeks. I am going to take
>slides for the most part.
You've already had some replies from people who have a lot more experience
with the films concerned than I, but I'll add a little because a) I've
been doing some specific comparisons of the films mentioned over the last
few months, and b) I live in the southern hemisphere in almost exactly the
same latitude as where you're going (and IMHO that's an important factor).
You'll be there at the height of summer and the light can be pretty intense,
so lower ISO will be less of a problem.
In short, I'd take some each of Provia 100F and Velvia 100F, having gone
through several rolls of each over the last few weeks on holidays. We
find the colour pallette to be a close match with what we see in real
life. Both push well. Two of the Velvia rolls were pushed to 200 with
good results (colours subjectively not quite as "rich" as at 100, but
really not much in it; I had a long discussion about pushing Velvia 100
at the pro lab where it's processed, they have no problem at all
with the results they see). If I had to take only one film, Velvia 100
would just get the nod.
More specifically. Velvia 50: we were a bit disappointed at its reproduction
of the colours of Australian bush flora, and preferred Provia 100 in that
respect. This is very much a personal judgement, and there are plenty of
people around here who disagree. Nonetheless there are lots of good
things about V50, especially using a tripod at f16 or so, and making sure
the highlights don't blow out.
But we are quite happy with Velvia 100 for colour rendition.
Can't say much about Astia 100 (can't get 100F here), except that we've
liked the little that we have used (just a couple of rolls).
We've tried one roll of Kodak Elitechrome (the more saturated version, forgotten
what it's called) so far. That was quite good, and will try some more.
I also plan to try some Kodachrome 64 (when I track some down). Recently
looked at slides I took years ago in Iran and Afghanistan in intense
light conditions, and was pretty pleased at how the K64s had stood up over
time.
The opinions above were formed using transparencies projected to about
80cm width on a matte screen (not yet into scanning, but soon). And in
spirited discussion with partner Rosemary, who has done a lot of
photography.
regards
Andrew
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