Re: New Fuji Film: Astia

[P3D Gregory J. Wageman <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

George Themelis puzzles:

>I have been puzzled by occassional comments by "fanatic" Kodachrome users
>in SSA folios about the pastel exaggerated colors of Fuji films vs. Kodak
>films when to my eye the colors look real and not exaggerated.

The only Fuji film I use is Velvia.  There is no question that Velvia
produces *extremely* saturated colors.  It was the perfect film for
the antique and high-performance autos I shot recently.  It turned out
to be an interesting "experiment", because Susan was shooting Royal
Gold print film in the Revere.  We took several shots of the same cars.

Some of the prints she got were NOT an accurate representation of the
color of the subject car.  Even with its glowingly vibrant colors, the
Velvia at least captured the right shade!  (The print turned an orange
'flame' into yellow, and turned a deep midnight blue metallic into a
medium blue.  I suspect this is because there wasn't a clear color
reference for the printing machine to lock on to [no skin tones or other
such reference], so it went for a more 'balanced' color rendition, which
happened to be wrong.  This is one advantage of slides vs. prints.)

>Having said the above, I still think that there is a use for a less
>saturated film for those "contrasty" (clear as in crystal clear, and 
>sunny) days...

There is... it's called Kodachrome. ;-)

	-Greg W.


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