On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Windrim, Brian wrote:
|John A. Prosper wrote:
|
|>> For landscapes/nature, the *BIG NEWS* is that Fuji has a brand new
|>> transparency film called *Provia 100F (RDP III)* which is *the most
|>> grainless film ever made*.
|
|Hi John,
|
|I'm looking forward to trying Provia F myself, but I presume you meant
|"the most grainless *colour slide* film ever made"?
Yes, that is what was meant.
|>> I strongly suspect Kodak is trying to cook up a response to all this,
|>> as evidenced by their very recent cancellation of their Kodachrome 25
|>> & 64 lines.
|
|Can you clarify this, please? I had heard that they had dropped the
|*professional* Kodachromes but I sincerely hope they haven't axed the
|consumer versions as well. It's hard to see how that would help
|them against Provia F in any case, but I wouldn't put it past them.
I explained in another correction (wow, last night was a bad night for
me!) only Kodachrome 25 Professional appears to have been scraped.
This is from Kodak's own website.
|It's largely on account of Kodak dropping Ektachrome 50 (and Ektar 25)
|that I've moved over to Fuji (for colour) and back to Ilford (for B&W).
|
|Also, it's unlikely that Kodak will be able to match Provia F anytime soon,
|since they were unable to increase the colour saturation of their newest
|ISO100 E6 emulsions without increasing granularity as well (RMS 11 for
|E100VS and EBX compared with 10 for E100S/SW and EB).
|
|>> When the film giants slug it out, photographers win! ;-D
|
|The loss of the classic K25, K64 and K200 emulsions would scarcely be a
|win for anybody. I haven't used them for a while as I prefer to do my own
|processing, but I like to know they're available if I want them.
|
|Hoping I've got your meaning wrong,
|
|-Brian
|
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