High contrast 3D slides

[P3D Carrano, Allan <allan.carrano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excuse me if I should repeat anything already gone over in the last half
dozen digests.  Hurricane Fran wiped out delivery of several recent
postings.  

I just wanted to comment that as short as 10 - 15 years ago there were
some lovely low contrast slide films available.  I just started to
explore them when they were "upgraded" by the manufacturers.  It seems
the public likes high contrast vivid slides instead of the softer,
somewhat pastel like rendering, these now defunct films offered at the
time.  

I found out about the change over after purchasing a follow up roll of
an Agfa slide film I had used previously, and found to be particularly
pleasing to use in soft misty morning outdoor shots.  There was no
warning of the "improvement" to the film, not even, as I recall, new
packaging.  The stereo slides I took are fine, but did not have that
special soft quality I was trying to capture. 

It was a month or two later that I saw the article in one of the photo
magazines  praising the "new and improved" films that were available,
replacing those "faulty" predecessors that lacked "snap." 

I'm sorry to see the large number of films today that diversify by film
speed, grain and enhancing certain colors over others, but do not offer
a wider range of contrast, such that did exist not that long ago.

Allan Carrano 


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