[filmscanners] Re: New Fuji Films

["David J. Littleboy" <davidjl@gol.com>]

"Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca> asks:
>>>>>>>>
Has anyone had any experience yet with the new Fuji Pro Reversal films,
Astia 100F and Velvia 100F.

Fuji claim the Astia 100F is their finest grain yet, and has great skin
tones due to the 4th layer.  I don't think it's in the stores in western
Canada yet.
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I've shot a couple of rolls of each. Both seem essentially indistinguishable
from Provia 100F; less grain noise when scanned at 4000 dpi than Velvia 50,
but still noise levels orders of magnitude higher than digital. Sigh. The
Astia 100F _may_ be less sharp than the Velvia 100F. Maybe.

I shot them on overcast days (the sun's only been out two or three times in
the last two months here), so it really wasn't a good test. All three
require boosting the reds a tad and pulling the blues down a bunch to get
anywhere close to neutral grays, but that was more the overcast than the
film, I think. (Tokyo's a great place for testing color film: there's lots
of gray everywhere. No need to bring neutral gray cards along.)

David J. Littleboy
davidjl@gol.com
Tokyo, Japan

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