Fuji Astia advice?

[Thanasis]

Hi there,
I've recently acquired about 5 rolls of cheap Fuji Astia which I have never used before. The data sheet says that it has "one of the world’s highest levels of color fidelity, making it ideally suited for fashion photography and portraiture that demand exquisite skin tones and faithful costume rendition."

:confused: Huh??

Is there anyone on Apug that is an experienced user of this film? What is it good for? I'm guessing it's no good for saturated landscape photography. I intend to shoot it in available daylight or perhaps night photography... Any thoughts?

 

[Justin Cormack]

I like it. Its got more latitude than other slide films, which can be useful. Where I live is rarely the sort of place you want saturated colours. It has good reciprocity.

 

[ingobohn]

Very fine and accurate skin tones.

 

[wirehead]

It's good for people, bad for scenery.

The difference in RMS grain numbers and lattitude between it and Provia is imperceptable under most normal conditions, IMHO.

I kinda view it as distorting color in the complete opposite direction from Velvia.

I haven't tried it at night very much, but it's got pretty good reciprocity. I usually reserve it for when I'm going to be taking portraits of people.