I have personally found that while a 35mm landscape slide shot on a neutral film (such as Astia) looks a bit dull to the eye, the same scene photographed on 5x7 looks pleasing enough on the lightbox. I have a theory for this: in general one needs saturated films for landscape because what your brain remembers of the landscape had the vivid colors that it reconstructed, therefore if you look at litteral colors you are disappointed. The image information in the 35mm slide is too impoverished for the brain to reconstruct the pictorial space and color, but on the other hand, the information in the LF transparency equals or exceeds what you would see at the scene, and since it is input equivalent to the scene, colors are perceived as from the scene, ie in a satisfactory way. What do you think ? (just trying to justify my switch to Astia :-))
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