Some Velvia shots from the summer

IANUS · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Posts: 84

Following pictures are from August 09 shot on Velvia 50. I do like the saturated clours of the Velvia but sometimes the slides are quite dark which gives some trouble for scanning.

Camera was a Leica R4. As far as I can remember the first two pictures with the Summicron 50mm and the last one with an Elmarit 135mm.

eeyore_nl · Joined: 09 Nov 2008 Posts: 464 Location: Netherlands

The last one is excellent!
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cooltouch · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 1451 Location: Houston, Texas

Whoa! Fantastic saturation!

I've never shot a roll of Velvia. Guess I need to do something about that soon.

I agree, your exposures do appear to be just a tad on the dark side -- maybe 1/2 stop under-exposed or so. But I like the effect, actually. I used to slightly underexpose Kodachrome 64 -- I'd shoot it at EI 80 for improved saturation.
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The saturation and the last image is great. Well done mate...
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Carlsson · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 665 Location: Portugal

Nice set.
I do expose Velvia 50 all the time at ISO40.
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Carlsson · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 665 Location: Portugal

Only in few scenes, happens very rare. But at ISO40 I get little more details in the shadows.
Perhaps it's because of my different development times for E6 processing.
At 6:30 for the first developer Kodak films are perfectly exposed but Fuji films (all Velvias and Provia 100F) tend to be darker (1/2 stop).
At least I would give it a try.

three samples at ISO40 (sorry about hi-jacking):
Velvia 50 (fresh):

Velvia 50 (fresh):

Velvia RVP (original Velvia50):

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Attila · Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 27531 Location: Budapest,Hungary

I have frozen expired VELVIA 50 many times like at Teneriffe I did shoot at ISO 25.
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Carlsson · Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 665 Location: Portugal

It's a common problem Crying or Very sad

Give ISO40 a try, at least one roll.

Yes I do, with the Tetenal E6 kit, tank development. Sounds harder than it is Smile

The 5l kit gives you 5x12 rolls, at least, it costs around 75 Euros.
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