Shawn Wright <swright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake
thusly:
> I'm about to try Velvia for the first time, but am confused by the speed
> ratings I've heard being used. I know Fuji rates it at ISO 50. Yet I've seen
> mention in several discussions, magazines, etc that it is often shot at ISO
> 40
> or even 32, which seems to go against wisdom that slide film should not be
> overexposed. Is there something special about Velvia as opposed to regular
> slide film?
Fuji have some info on this on their web site.
(As far as I can tell, it's the only piece of actual information on
their entire web site. The rest of it is content-free marketing
hyperbole).
The idea of rating velvia at ISO40 (i.e. overexposing it) is that in
some cases it is *too* saturated, so it's deliberately overexposed
to tone down the "disneychrome" effect...
> I always thought print film could use a little more exposure for better
> saturation, and slide film is the opposite (which makes sense), if any
> adjustment is needed.
>
> Am I missing something? What do our Velvia/OM users shoot it at?
Can't afford the stuff often here....
cjb.
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