The experience I've had with Provia 100F in the U.S. Pacific Northwest,
where it is overcast 9 months out of the year, is that it is actually best
when overcast. If I take pictures of a forested scene that is hundreds of
feet away (e.g. a waterfalls with surrounding moss-covered cliffs) with a
blue sky (but no direct sunlight), there is a discouraging blue cast to the
whole scene. (I can fix most of this in the scanning process.) The colors
are much more realistic if the same scene is taken with an overcast sky.
Also, for closeups deep within the forest, even with a blue sky, colors are
great with no blue overcast. Does anyone have an explanation for this
behavior?
Frank Paris
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> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
> Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:06 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: filmscanners: orange mask
>
>
> On Wed, 17 Jan 2001 21:20:28 +1100 Roman =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kielich=AE?=
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > ?? speed? When I started photography, 15-18 DIN (25-50 ASA) films were
> > standard, and DIN 27/ASA 400 were terribly high speed! BTW, it was in
> > continental Europe (same problem with seasons and light).
>
> No, not speed, Provia's vile and somewhat erratic insistence on
> heavy blue casts and
> magenta-blue shadows if shown murky, cold colour temps. Even an
> 81a or 81b don't seem
> to help. Although they warm things up, colour is poor. Fuji kept
> RDP in production
> specifically because of the howls of protest from UK snappers,
> but then decided they
> could fob us off with Astia, which is slightly more even-tempered
> than Provia in such
> conditions. An awful lot of people switched to Ektachrome 100SW
> as a result. An
> excellent film for UK murk, but it dislikes direct sunlight and
> goes over-warm.
>
> Don't get me wrong, Provia is wonderful stuff if you live
> somewhere sunny or use a
> studio. It just malfunctions severely in what passes for weather
> in UK for much of the
> year. The newer 'F' version is better, as the not entirely
> unrelated Astia was, but
> neither come close to RDP for even-temperedness.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> http://www.halftone.co.uk - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film
> scanner info &
> comparisons
