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Has anyone had any experience with this film? It’s a slide film that is rated from 100ASA – 1000ASA. I can’t find any information concerning any quality change over this range though. If anyone has used it, could you let me know how it performs over the full range; grain. colour saturation etc. Regards, David — David Chandler
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Has anyone had any experience with this film?
It is probably the same as Astia or SensiaII with the price jacked up. That’s what some photographers think, anyway. It’s a slide film that is rated from 100ASA – 1000ASA. I can’t find any information concerning any quality change over this range though. If anyone has used it, could you let me know how it performs over the full range; grain. colour saturation etc.
As this table derived from the Fuji spec sheet shows, grain increases and color saturation decreases with higher EIs, but resolution and sharpness remain the same. At EI 100 it behaves just like (big surprise?) Astia. http://creekin.net/films.htm
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I use them all the times, especially in 120 format. They are slightly expensive if you want to use it at 100, but for the flexibility it allows, quite good. The color and contrast are much better than provia pushed at four stops, at ISO100 no detectable difference It really shows at EI1000 (p4) that compare to provia 100F it has better color rendition, but unpushed, the MS100/1000 have a much more neutral tone compare to say, provia or velvia, which have a very vivid green cast. Grain wise, it’s undetectable. Mind you the cost is quite high, adding in push process. But it’s probbly the fastest slide films around, In practice, I use them on location work, especially in overcast condition, I don’t use Kodak Slides so I have no comments comparing to those
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I compared it on a high quality light table with an equally high quality loupe with 100, 200, and 400 speed slide films from both Kodak and Fuji. I thought it fantastic. The 200 was better than either Fuji or Kodak’s single speeds and the 100 was as good. Pushing is expensive however, but if you need a very pushable slide film, this one’s in a league by itself. (Provia F was not out at the time of this comparison, so it may be a better 100).
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It’s my film of choice for shooting at 200, 400, 800 or 1600. For shooting at 100 I prefer Sensia II or Provia. Some may say it’s expensive to push it, but the pro-lab I use doesn’t charge extra for push processing. Come to Photocountry http://www.photocountry.photoshot.com/
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – Has anyone had any experience with this film? It’s a slide film that is rated from 100ASA – 1000ASA. I can’t find any information concerning any quality change over this range though. If anyone has used it, could you let me know how it performs over the full range; grain. colour saturation etc. Regards, David — David Chandler
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says… – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – I use them all the times, especially in 120 format. They are slightly expensive if you want to use it at 100, but for the flexibility it allows, quite good. The color and contrast are much better than provia pushed at four stops, at ISO100 no detectable difference It really shows at EI1000 (p4) that compare to provia 100F it has better color rendition, but unpushed, the MS100/1000 have a much more neutral tone compare to say, provia or velvia, which have a very vivid green cast. Grain wise, it’s undetectable. Mind you the cost is quite high, adding in push process. But it’s probbly the fastest slide films around, In practice, I use them on location work, especially in overcast condition, I don’t use Kodak Slides so I have no comments comparing to those
Thanks for this info Bob, I’ll take a couple of rolls of this with me on a trip to Florence next month and try it out. — David Chandler
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but the pro-lab I use doesn’t charge extra for push processing.
Which is? What do they charge for E-6 on 35mm not mounted? Jim Arnold Dallas, TX http://members.aol.com/equineact/jarnphot.htm
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Peak Imaging in Sheffield, England They charge
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