[filmscanners] RE: New Fuji Films

["Frank Paris" <frankparis@comcast.net>]

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> [mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk] On Behalf Of David
> J. Littleboy
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 12:05 AM
> To: frankparis@comcast.net
> Subject: [filmscanners] Re: New Fuji Films
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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.

This is my experience exactly on the overcast sky at St. Helens. But
when the sky started brightening, I no longer had to boost the red.
Still had to bring down the blues, however. I've always had to do that
with Velvia 50 as well as Provia 100F.

Frank Paris
frankparis@comcast.net

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