[filmscanners] Re: New Fuji Films

["Arthur Entlich" <artistic-1@shaw.ca>]

Interesting.  We've had nothing but sun, and usually we have a lot of
gray days.  I think we deserve it, we've had gray skies for years now!

Fuji gives the impression that the improvement in the grain is
considerable...

Have you heard any word on if Sensia 100 is going to be updated to some
of the newer technologies?  Last version was identical to the previous
Astia 100, and it sold for $3-$4 cheaper per roll here, so if they end
up moving Sensia to even Provia 100F, I know what I'm buying ;-)

Art

David J. Littleboy wrote:

> "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.
> <<<<<<<<<
>
> 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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