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I have tried Velvia 50, Velvia 100F, Provia 100F, Provia 400X, and Astia 100F. And I just don't care for the colors with any of these films, Astia included. It just seems like Fuji is trying to 'wow' people by making all of their E6 films unnaturally colorful. And this is not my thing. Especially that nasty blue cast that no Fuji E6 film seems to be immune from.
Did you visit our Lab in Mountergate?
Ah yes! I know Richard pretty well, remember when he started in Hi-tec house in the mid 1980's.
Shame he has moved out of the city, with Reflections gone I think the last E-6 lab in the city has closed-sign of the times I'm afraid.
I often think if I had the time I'd start up a handline offering high quality processing for E-6/C41 and then I remember I have 3 kids and the reasons I'm not so active in the business ;-)
Mark;
From what I observed, Kodak E6 films are less sensitive to change as the control charts reported in the article and reported by others have said that the Kodak products were in control but the Fuji products were out of control.
Agreed. Matt, when I read your post, that was literally the first time I'd heard/seen anybody refer to astia as 'unnaturally colourful.' You'd be in the severe minority with such an opinion. Would you care to share an 'unnaturally colourful' astia photo with us? A straight scan with rebate will do. Do be sure that your scanner and screen are calibrated so that we are comparing apples to apples.
My own experience with astia is that it has excellent colours when rated at box speed, and can be rated a little bit high or low per preference with no issues. Likewise 400x.
Anyway, I simply see no logic in this blanket insinuation that when you shoot colour, it has to be muted colour; but when you do b&w it's acceptable and 'artistic' to do lith and cyano and toning and IR and all manner of extreme tone manipulation.... :rolleyes: My blog "What's So Special About Black and White?" is roughly on this subject. Frankly, people who won't grant us (colour users) the same artistic latitude with tone manipulation that b&w photographers have had for 100+ years can just go right ahead and kiss my colourful...
And I still don't see why I should care what some Kodak clerk has to say about the future of E6.
Assuming it is not crummy processing, it is possible that you exposed them all in a color of light that made them look that way (such as shade), without using proper filtration to neutralize the color balance.
From a Q&A at the Kodak website:
It sounds like EKTAR 100 Film might be an alternative to high color reversal films?
Exactly. And that’s important as E-6 processing becomes less readily available.
Source: http://www.kodak.com/global/en/prof...ar/qAndA.jhtml?pq-path=13319/1230/13328/13344
Do you thinkg this hint that E-6 will eventually be phased out?
All technical data sheets? Perhaps.
Zeiss once measured the resolving power of various films (Camera Lens News 19, 2003).
Ektar 25 managed to resolve 200 lp/mm. Velvia did 160 lp/mm. Portra 160VC 150 lp/mm. Portra 160NC 140 lp/mm. Ektachrome 100 VS recorded 130 lp/mm.
Not much in it.
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I still await Matt's scanned example of an Astia 100f slide with unacceptable colour rendition. Something tells me that I am going to have to wait a long time.
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