Vibrant Colour

[MagicallyDelicious]

As my Camera is broken at mo I am having to shoot some film! Grrr!

Does anyone know of a film which will give vibrant colour?

Thankyou :)

[J Rabin]

What's wrong with Ektachrome 100VS (very saturated) transparency film?
Or Kodak Ultra Color 400 negative film for lower light? Or Fuji Velvia?
All good. All professional films. Get them from a professional stockist, better chance they were handled well.
Nothing like a good chrome projected on a screen!

Jack

[JWright]

Velvia...

[MagicallyDelicious]

What's wrong with Ektachrome 100VS (very saturated) transparency film?
Or Kodak Ultra Color 400 negative film for lower light? Or Fuji Velvia?
All good. All professional films. Get them from a professional stockist, better chance they were handled well.
Nothing like a good chrome projected on a screen!

Jack

Transparancy film? Is that just normal film?

That sounds so dense doesnt it!

[MagicallyDelicious]

Velvia...

I shall check it out thankyou

[J Rabin]

Transparency film gets developed into mounted slides. They are developed positives, not negatives. What you see under the loupe or on the light table is what you get, unlike negatives, which are usually printed to make selections and keeper evaluation.
Velvia and EktachromeVS are both dense emulsion transparency film with deep color saturation and fine grain. Both great.Velvia is famous for larger than life exaggerated landscape colors. Velvia is slow ISO, so bring your tripod.
Jack

[MagicallyDelicious]

Transparency film gets developed into mounted slides. They are developed positives, not negatives. What you see under the loupe or on the light table is what you get, unlike negatives, which are usually printed to make selections and keeper evaluation.
Velvia and EktachromeVS are both dense emulsion transparency film with deep color saturation and fine grain. Both great.Velvia is famous for larger than life exaggerated landscape colors. Velvia is slow ISO, so bring your tripod.
Jack

Right ive got you now.

wasnt too sure if it was a normal 35mm film. But i know what you mean about the slides.

I might need a faster speed though so i shall check out the Ektachrome one.

Fingers crossed someone still sells it! :)

Thankyou

[J Rabin]

At higher speed, about the only choice may be Kodak Ultra Color 400. It's nor Velvia, but it's not ISO 100 either....!
JAck

[primoz]

If you are happy with iso 50 (or nowadays 100) then there's only one answer... Fuji Velvia. And no matter what people (and mostly Fuji) say, old iso50 Velvia is still way ahead of iso100 version.

[MagicallyDelicious]

If you are happy with iso 50 (or nowadays 100) then there's only one answer... Fuji Velvia. And no matter what people (and mostly Fuji) say, old iso50 Velvia is still way ahead of iso100 version.
Defo gonna try it out.

Ive never been happy in the past shooting colour on film and now i know why!
i was using crap film! haha

[canoflan]

VVVVVVVVVVVVVelvia

[Zilly]

mmmmm velvia

[René Damkot]

I used velvia only in specific stituations: I found the film to be "too much" sometimes.
I did like Astia and Provia depending on subject and circumstances.
My local pro lab had a studio scene shot with all slide fims they sold, to make for an easy comparison. You might get lucky, and be able to find something like that.
IMO the old Velvia is closer to ISO 32 or 40 then ISO 50.
For print film, Agfa HDC might be an option as well as Kodak VHC (IIRC, it's been a while)

[KCMO Al]

When I got my first L lens, my first thought was to put a roll of Velvia in my Elan 7E to see what this lens can REALLY do.
If you don't want to shoot slides I'm still partial to Fuji so look at Fuji Professional. It ranges from 100-400 and can be pushed a stop or so if necessary.