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From: Ken Norton <image66@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2000 13:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
Zuikoids:

Last night I fired up a borrowed Kodak projector and
showed the results of my badlands/wyoming trip to
friends and family.  It was relatively unedited, so
the good, bad and ugly (except for the really ugly
which I already had culled out) got displayed all to
the tunes of some form of classical music in the
background.

Results were rather fascinating as those images that I
thought would be winners looking at them with a loupe
turned out be duds whereas some of the loupe snoozers
turned out to be killer shots when blown up on the
wall.  This brings to mind a frightening thought about
my editing process!!!!  I'm glad I don't use the
wastebasket excessively.

Anyway, I took a shot down at the inlaws farm early
this summer of a thunderstorm.  It was a lightening
shot that turned out perfectly.  Best of all, the
clouds were boiling and had plenty of nuances that
made you just want to look at it all day.

Another shot of the Badlands was a real bummer on the
light-table, but blown up to a huge size just sucked
you in.  The sky enveloped you and the texture below
just worked wonders.  Gotta love wideangles

The roll of Ektachrome super-saturated, steroid
injected, nuclear powered film proved to be a bit too
much.  First of all, absolutely no shadow detail.  The
falloff appears worse than Velvia.  Secondly, it is
completely off limits for wildlife/humans as
everything turns jaundiced.  My bison shots all were
worthless as the faces blacked out and the fur turned
completely unrealistic.  My "golden hour" extended to
the "golden day" with the film finding colors where
there really wasn't any.  Identical shots taken with
Velvia were far more nuetral and pleasing.  You could
achieve about the same affect by sticking an orange
filter infront of the lens.  I like saturated colors,
but I like all colors to be saturated, not just
orange.  With the shadows blocking up and the
excessive orange cast on anything that was supposed to
be gray proved less than tasteful.  Velvia/Provia will
turn gray treebark brown, wheras this turns it orange.
 I didn't find much subtle about the images taken with
this film and gradients were limited at best.  It is a
very sharp film with no apparent graininess. 
Identical shots taken with Velvia were MUCH more
pleasing.  Stick a polorizer and a warming filter on
this stuff and expect another Chernobyl. (cola
syndrome)

Exposures are drifting a little bit and I'm going to
have to start using the spot meter more again instead
of letting the OTF metering take care of things with
mild overrides.  There were many shots that could have
been improved a bunch by being adjusted +/- 1/3 stop.

EOS users step aside.  You wanna talk sharp?  My
100/2.8 images have blood all over them.

Ken Norton

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