Joop Mees wrote:
LotusM, I think your nice shot of the canal was taken in Utrecht.
Hmm. All those Dutch city canals look alike! ;-)
This was on the rolls with other Delft images. Not sure I remember getting to Utrecht on this particular trip, but its possible it was a few years ago now.
love the DR on that 4x5 Provia! Is it just an inherent property of large format that it has a larger dynamic range? Or should I be stocking up on 135 provia?
I you want more dynamic range on a slide film, I think Astia has more range than Provia does. I'm not sure how much, but I believe that Astia is has the least saturation and contrast of Fuji's slide film.
I you want more dynamic range on a slide film, I think Astia has more range than Provia does. I'm not sure how much, but I believe that Astia is has the least saturation and contrast of Fuji's slide film.
I you want more dynamic range on a slide film, I think Astia has more range than Provia does. I'm not sure how much, but I believe that Astia is has the least saturation and contrast of Fuji's slide film.
I was using a grad, but I can't remember which. I'm pretty sure it was a 3 stop hard edge.
Astia has just a touch more range on the high end, but no more usable range on the low end in my experience. It also has some really weird looking blues, so I don't typically like to use it when the blue sky will be included.
Another film with similar dynamic range is E100G/E100GX, which is now my main E-6 film in any format. E100GX is the warm balance version, and E100G is the standard balance version. Something I thought was interesting with E100GX was that while it is warm balanced, it is not like using a warming filter. Cool tones remain cool, but the warm tones seem amplified slightly.
Although Velvia is usually considered to be the defacto landscape slide film, I don't generally like it. Its narrow dynamic range and dense shadows make it difficult to scan at times and for a hybrid film/digital workflow, the built in saturation is not needed.
If you want more dynamic range for landscape photography and can deal with color negative scanning try Kodak Ektar 100, Kodak 400HD or Fuji Reala 100 as a first stop. Fuji Reala has the best color for landscape of the group, but didn't seem to hold as much detail. After that, Fuji Pro160S has even wider range and good usability for landscape. Even Portra 160NC can return some beautiful results in the right situations and probably has the widest dynamic range available. All of these color negative films except Ektar greatly exceed the dynamic range of any digital SLR. I think Ektar does as well, but probably not by much. The thing is, a wide dynamic range is not always a good thing. The narrow range of slide films is what gives them the rich color and punchy contrast and if the scene has a manageable SBR, then these films are usually the best choice.
That's my short take on color films in the landscape .
Amazing images makes me want to start shooting 4x5 again but the big drawback for me was no way of scanning the negatives. How does everyone scan theirs.
Josh Elchin wrote:
Amazing images makes me want to start shooting 4x5 again but the big drawback for me was no way of scanning the negatives. How does everyone scan theirs.
I use an Epson 4990 flatbed. Anything above 2400dpi starts to get soft (guess the scanner sensor isn't capable of handling more than that realistically?), but for large format film that gives you quite alot of resolution If you need more resolution, you can send it off to be drum scanned (at a price!), but for most things 4x5 to 8x10 the flatbed works just fine.
