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Re: [OM] Colour films

Subject: Re: [OM] Colour films
From: Frank Ernens <fgernens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 19:42:54 +1000
Warren Kato wrote:

> I just bought some [Provia] from B&H in 120 for $3.99 per roll...
> Also I get Velvia 35 from B&H at $4.99 per roll...

The Provia F cost more because I bought a single roll and
because of our tax system. Yes, B&H would be cheaper in bulk,
assuming I trusted the film to survive a 23 hour flight, airport
delays and X-rays.

In an earlier thread about the Badlands Ken Norton wrote

> The clouds were building and I managed to get
> some good pictures of highlighted hills and so forth.  No need for color
> film here, since everything is grey anyway.  In the evening and morning the
> hills do take on the color of the sun so think of them as visual
> tofu--tasteless on its own...
> Sunset was pretty good...

Ken probably didn't shoot there what I would have shot there. Different
visions, different films, and I'm not even claiming I wouldn't like what
Ken puts on his Velvia.

> ...you [should] use fill lighting when necessary to bring your shadows
> up.  Nothing like a reflector card to improve your picture anyway.

A mile-high one for some landscapes. I doubt Thomas Abercrombie could
have shot those Easter Island pictures on Velvia.

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