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Thank you guys!
@ Stone:
I always thought, Velvia is THE film for landscape and I still use it frequently. BUT I´m getting more and more to Ektar. The contrast margin of the Velvia is too narrow in many lighting Situations, and you have to do many exposures for one shot to pick out the right one afterwards, so you are wasting film and time. After that, Velvia is extremely hard to scan in my opinion, even with my drumscanner.
Ektar is much more forgiving with the Highlights/shadows, has a beautiful colour rendition and is quite as sharp. Here the whole difficulty is scanning and inverting. My drumscanner does a extremely good Job with scanning the raw negative. Everything else is done in PS.
I love Velvia, but I will use it only for Special purposes with very even lighting Situation in the future.
This Picture would have been impossible to do with Velvia e.g.:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/88626385@N03/14753365756/
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Agreed. I find ektar the better option 90% of the time. The extra 2 to 3 stops of range make it better for nearly everything. You can be 1/3rd of a stop off on the exposure and still make a good image from it, the film scans easily and colorneg plugin makes easy work of the colors. It's my go-to film for landscapes. I always take velvia with me just incase the light is soft and even. If I have to use 3 filters to bring a scene into the range of velvia, I prefer one filter and ektar.
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That's a beautiful photo.
To each his own though. I hate Ektar - shooting and scanning it just doesn't work for me. I have better luck with slides and tweaking my development if needed to not get quite so deep shadows/density.
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Corran
That's a beautiful photo.
To each his own though. I hate Ektar - shooting and scanning it just doesn't work for me. I have better luck with slides and tweaking my development if needed to not get quite so deep shadows/density.
Yea same with me, CN film scans horribly on my Epson V-750 ... Like it's awful! E-6 is way easier to scan for me so long as the exposure is right in the first place.
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Stone, you have to go after it with a lot of color correction tools. And for what it's worth ColorPerfect didn't do anything for me. But I prefer the scans (and ease of scanning, if exposed well) from Velvia, is what I'm saying.
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Fredrick
Very beatiful, Fredrick
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sdzsdz
Another morning. It should have been an holiday vacation, but I got up at 3:30 AM nearly every morning. Could not sleep while I was knowing that these colours show up on the other side of the curtain.
Tachihara 4x5, Ektar 100, 75mm Super Angulon, Drumscanner. I did NOT amp up the colour! Only RAW Scan and contrast after inverting with ColorNeg Plugin.
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3855/...3f770ccd_b.jpg
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Amazing
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vitality
Amazing Vitality, I like it
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Corran
That's a beautiful photo.
To each his own though. I hate Ektar - shooting and scanning it just doesn't work for me. I have better luck with slides and tweaking my development if needed to not get quite so deep shadows/density.
Same here. I have tried it. 80% of the time, I find it has a weird color cast that all my Photoshop tricks can't purge from a scan. I have not had good luck with the Kodak films.
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Would it be too much to assume when people talk about 'Velvia' they are talking of the original 50 ASA version? There are a number of Velvia variants out there and I am of the opinion that being more specific might be more helpful for people referring to this thread in the future.
I believe the 100 version is a more forgiving film ?
:-)
