It seems to me that the final use would determine your film. I agree
with you about Provia if you are looking at slides. I think Fuji
designed that film for the scanner with its fine grain, less
saturated color and a low black point. All those things are good for
portraits and do not interfere with post processing for scenics after
a scan. The slides themselves always looked a bit dull to me.
You could do what many photographers have done with Velvia since it
came out. Shoot it at 40 ISO instead of 50. It looks like a different
film then. That would solve your problem of switching out films on a
trip. Just lower the ISO when doing portraits.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / July 6, 2007 CE, at 12:29 AM, Lukasz Grabun wrote:
> I planned to take slides, mostly, on which I would shot both
> landscapes and occasional, "travel" portraits (i.e. picture from
> holiday, you frame and place on your office desk, whatever). I've
> already have 20 (!) rolls of Velvia 50 and 10 rolls of Kodak E100VS -
> both are very good at rendering landscape colors but not that good
> when it comes to making portraits (skin is rendered as red, colors are
> too vibrant). What slide would you recommend for portrait *and*
> landscape pictures (I don't feel like shooting the whole roll of
> portrait slide, than change to Velvia in order to make some landscape
> shots). Few people recommended Fuji Provia or Astia. Even though
> objectively it's a good advice, I am a bit reluctant to follow it.
> I've made few rolls of Provia in the past and weren't too happy about
> the results.
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