[rollei_list] [off-topic] I came too late using FUJI ASTIA slides ...
- From: Bigler Emmanuel <Emmanuel.Bigler@xxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:13:38 +0200
[off-Rollei-topic]
I as often mentioned it on this list, I'm a regular enthusiastic user
of color slides. Call the attitude "a lost battle" if you prefer ;-)
Only recently did I start using FUJI ASTIA film, and I still have a
small number of 135 and 120 ASTIA rolls to go, but now the film is
discontinued. I came too late trying this film ... Probably I was
influenced by some Provia/Velvia lobbying friends, oriented toward
landscape and outdoor photography.
Well, I recently received a series of 4x6" prints-on-paper from 35 mm
ASTIA slides, taken with my faithful Rollei 35 SE camera. Prints were
made at a local photo shop operating a FUJI frontier machine. Pictures
on slides were taken at a family wedding, and I knew that ASTIA is
good for portrait with flash light, at least in a professional
environment.
I'm truly amazed by the good quality of the printed results I obtained
in careless lighting conditions and often in crude, direct,
"single-flash" lighting conditions. On color slides!! So good that I
regret not to have used more ASTIA slide film at previous family
events ...
Nevertheless, it's useless to complain and regret the past. I have
recently made other "family images" with a 6x6 Rollei TLR with a
single flash unit, on Kodak color negative film, and the results are
admittedly the best from film shots when prints or jpegs-on-screen are
intended as the final form of display for the images.
Those Kodak color negs are incredibly forgiving for amateur-grade
lighting conditions with a single flash unit, as if the film, although
labeled 'professional' or something like that, was designed _only_ to
be extremely tolerant for amateur use ;-)
Hopefully Kodak will continue to fabricate those damn' good color
negs.
This eventually brings us to the availability of color slide film as
of April, 2012.
I thing I'd likely purchase some additional rolls of ASTIA, but I'm
afraid that stocks at my usual European dealers are definitely empty.
So instead, I could try some Kodak slides, until those stocks turn empty
as well, before being forced to definitely say 'good by' to Rochester
slides.
And definitely switch to a mixed Japanese (Fuji) / Belgian
(Agfa-Gevaert-Rollei-branded) supply of color slide films ;-)
--
Emmanuel
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