On 5 Dec 2005 at 18:19, Tom C wrote: > For once I agree with Pal... > > It's always been my contention that Velvia looks closer to the way I > remember the scene than other films (I'm talking about nature/landscape). > It's > not a good skin-tone film from what I've experienced. People seem to > universally comment 'but the picture doesn't do it justice'. I think Velvia > puts that punch back in that makes up for the difference between what my eyes > saw and what the phototgraphic rendition is. > > In addition, I think many times the comparisons between Velvia and other > films are made w/o the benefit of viewing the exact same image on the films in > question, and w/o the benefit of having witnessed the original scene.
And sometimes they are just plain over-saturated junk produced to placate the plebs. See the following link to see work from one of the best known and most sold landscape photographers in Australia. In 2003 he was engaged to spruik the virtues of Velvia 100F at its official launch here: http://www.kenduncan.com/funandfree.php?ms=73&efunc=new And if you're an absolute glutton for punishment try this (warning it's a Flash page and it's about a 2MB DL) http://www.kenduncan.com/echristmas Cheers, Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.ozemail.com.au/~distudio/publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998
