At 17:32 12/7/01, Gries asked:
Great! Some people have told me that, but I was a bit hesitant to give
to Walgreen's....
The Qualex (Kodak Premium Processing) courier picks it up and it gets
routed to the nearest Qualex K-14 lab. This may not be the nearest Qualex
lab; not all of them have K-14 (or B/W, or E-6). Turnaround for me is
about a week. You can now ask for plastic slide mounts (put the request in
the special instructions box at the bottom). Much, much better than the
cardboard and far less "Koda-dust" to blow off the slides when you get them
back.
Favorite film, eh? How does it compare to Provia F?
I do use other films, including Provia 100F, but not very often. Provia
100F has the same acuity in projection. It's slightly finer grained, but
edge definition isn't as high. Kodachrome 64 is very slightly coarser, but
its extremely thin emulsion helps create a very sharp edge definition. The
two work together in creating the visual appearance of "sharpness" in
projection (and in printing them). Provia 100F color is accurate, and
saturation is similar. Overall color response from Kodachrome seems
slightly deeper, and Provia 100F seems a little bolder; mostly in the greens.
Remember Kodachrome 64 is 2/3 stop slower which means you can get into low
light troubles sooner. Provia 100F reciprocity failure doesn't occur until
you hit about 30 seconds exposure; Kodachrome 64 is good to about 1 second,
although I've pushed the envelope to close to 10 seconds without severe
problems (Kodak's recommendations are conservative).
One effect from both Provia and Sensia I've noted during night
shooting. Extrememly bright sources of light in the foreground seem to
bleed sideways in the film emulsion creating a slight "blob" effect around
the light source. This doesn't happen with Kodachrome.
Run an A vs. B comparison of same/similar subject material under
same/similar lighting. See which you like better.
-- John
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