On Wednesday, November 21, 2001, at 03:25 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > FUJI lead the charge into "saturated" emulsions and KODAK stupidly > followed. > I know you know this already, but here goes anyway: I personally don't > know > of any (ANY) FUJI emulsion which can faithfully reproduce the skin > tones of > people of color. FUJI, and now KODAK emulsions, are all formulated to > give > even bone white complexions a "glow," if not an outright "tan." > FUJI's film offerings have surrendered color fidelity in (consumer) > film for > color "saturation." THAT SUCKS.
If you haven't shot it, Mafud, I think you really owe it to yourself to try a roll of either NPS or NPH from Fuji. They are gorgeous, smooth, natural, low contrast negative films, with exceptionally tight grain for their speeds. As to leading the saturation charge, here's a funny one for ya: to compete with Kodak's Portra 160 VC and Portra 400 VC, Fuji found themselves needing to create a high-saturation pro negative film, since both the Kodak VCs were a higher saturation than Fuji's highest-at-the-time pro offering, which was Reala. So they've put out NPC 160. I'm not a fan of super-saturation for most things, but I also believe that films with lots of saturation do have their place. Not usually in portraiture, tho'. -Aaron - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
