Re: A question of grain.

[P3D Paul Talbot <ptww@xxxxxxxxx>]

Gregory J. Wageman wrote:

> I personally think that Velvia beats even Kodachrome 25 for lack
> of apparent grain, though some here have disputed that.

The 35mm Film Source Book I mentioned a while back states that
Velvia "rivals" K25 for grain.  I take that to mean "close, but
no cigar."

I'm not a Kodachrome fanatic, I just got curious about it after
reading comments here on P3D, and decided to give it a try.
Looking alternately between a K25 stereo slide and a Velvia
slide (different images created almost a year apart) in the
same viewer, the Velvia looks grainier to me.  Sometime in the
not-too-distant future, I may have identical shots taken at the
same time but on the two different films, so as to do a better
comparison.

Paul Talbot


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