"Alan Browne" wrote in message
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Velvia 100F favours colors but is not as punchy as Velvia 50. I've only
shot 2 rolls of 100F to date, but I'm very pleased. My impression is
that it handles high contrast light better than Provia 100F.

I've shot quite a lot of Velvia 100F now, and my impressions are very much
the same. Where the scene can take the contrast I still like 50 a little
more - but that is an issue of personal style more than anything else.


Sensia 100 (same as Astia 100 at less $) is fairly neutral and a great
all purpose slide film. This would be my #1 recomendation.

I'm always surprised at how nice Elitechrome 100 comes out (it's the
consumer packaged Ektachrome 100), but I prefer Sensia 100.

Ektachrome E100G and E100GX seem very good, though I've only done a little
experimentation with them so far. E100GX is slightly less saturated than
Velvia 100F, but (of course) a little warmer. If the OP is going to avoid
all use of filters, this one might be worth a look.


E100S has been off my list since I began scanning slides... while I like
it projected, it is not a great film scanned ... lots of grain and noise.

E100VS is a great film for some subjects, but I find it has less 'universal'
landscape applicability (for me) than the Velvia family. That may be partly
a matter of light though: I work mostly in the UK and Europe - travels to
places with hot dry air seem to see me using much more E100VS than I do 'at
home'. I agree about the grain: I'm really hoping that a 'G' version of it
will come out: the other G films are very fine grained. (Note that E100VS
reproduces certain plant and flower colours very oddly.)



Peter