[filmscanners] Re: New Fuji Films

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

So, from what you are saying I surmise, it records grays well, as washed
out as the real thing ;-), and then, as it brightens up, it exaggerates
the color and makes it radioactive ;-)  Sounds "interesting"... Ahem.

The only time I used to shoot Velvia was under overcast conditions.

Art

May all your clouds be dye clouds ;-)

Frank Paris wrote:

> I'm scanning now with Velvia 100F. I took 3 rolls in the Mt. St. Helens
> Monument last Sunday. The morning started out overcast, then most of the
> clouds burned off. So far I'm only into the morning overcast slides. I
> was in the blast area so was completely exposed to skylight but it was
> gray. I'm scanning at 4000 dpi and the grain --- excuse me, dye clouds
> --- is nearly invisible at 1:1. But it doesn't seem as contrasty as
> Velvia 50 (which I shot at 40). A lot of the slides seemed washed out
> under this lighting. Then as it got brighter, the colors started popping
> off the screen.
>
> Is that an unscientific enough description of my results so far? Too bad
> I don't have a web site so I could show you results.
>
> Frank Paris
> frankparis@comcast.net
>


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