Joseph Tainter wrote (in hope of starting a flame war or, at the very
least, a robust discussion):
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I doubt that I'll use Velvia again. Or if I do, it will be infrequently.
This comes in spite of the fact that my May PUG entry was shot on
Velvia. I shoot a lot of flowers, and I find Velvia's saturation and
color are very nice for that type of work, but I find it very difficult
to get a good scan. The film is so saturated that the scan sometimes
starts to appear posterized, as though I had pumped up the saturation in
Photoshop. And I have a tough time achieving proper contrast and color
balance on Velvia scans. It might not be the film's fault. It could be
my own ineptitude, but I find Ektachrome 100VS is just as nice in terms
of brilliant color and saturation, yet it scans better, at least on the
Agfa 2500T Duoscan.
Paul
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