Alan, That is probably not a bad rule to follow. For me, living in California, I have many more sunny days than overcast and people tend to shy away from overcast days for photos. One other film that I have found handles contrast very well and is quite good with skin tones is Fuji Reala 100. It has good saturation and very small grain. I have actually used it at a wedding that was shot at high noon. It tested better than the Portra 160NC. I was able to capture the blacks and whites of the bride and groom as well.
Bruce Dayton Tuesday, April 09, 2002, 12:38:27 AM, you wrote: >>Not too sure on the Fuji, but for the Kodak, I would choose the NC >>version. Usually daylight is going to cause some contrast problems >>and there isn't that much need for punchy colors for skin tones, so I >>would go with the lower contrast stuff. I know that Fuji makes both a >>low and higher contrast film too, just not which is which. AC> Hi Bruce, AC> Does that mean for overcast, VC is prefered while NC is better for sunny AC> days? AC> regards, AC> Alan Chan AC> _________________________________________________________________ AC> Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. AC> - AC> This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, AC> go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to AC> visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org . - 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 .
