Been there, places are very colorful, but not that colorful. Very little in nature looks like it was done with melted crayons or super gloss acrylics.
To me Agfa Precisa 100 had the most accurate color rendition of any of the slide films. That was the biggest loss to me from Agfa going out of the film business. Tom C wrote: > You need to come out west sometime. :-) > > Tom C. > > >> From: "P. J. Alling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Reply-To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> >> Subject: Re: A few more images.... >> Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 15:27:05 -0400 >> >> Now landscape photographers use Velvia and my brain rebels >> because nature just doesn't look like that. >> >> John Sessoms wrote: >> > From: >> > "P. J. Alling" >> > >> >> Those look like typical Velvia, or as I like to call it Velveeta, >> >> (Kraft Corporation's processed "Cheese Food", since it has the same >> >> relationship to natural color that Velveeta has to natural cheese), to >> >> me.. I still have a hard time believing that this stuff actually >> >> displaced Kodachrome as the saturated slide film of choice. Kodachrome >> >> may have been highly saturated but it still had some relationship to >> >> the colors of nature. >> >> >> > How much of that is because of what Velvia is and how much of it is due >> > to Kodak making Kodachrome so much less accessible than it used to be. >> > >> > You can get Velvia processed almost anywhere in the world. How many >> labs >> > process Kodachrome? >> > >> > >> >> >> -- >> Remember, it’s pillage then burn. >> >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> PDML@pdml.net >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.487 / Virus Database: 269.13.16/1005 - Release Date: 9/13/2007 > 11:45 AM -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
