Velvia 50: Film gone wild
Velvia 50: Film gone wild
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Velvia 50 is the Andy Warhol of color film. If you want Norman Rockwell, buy a roll of Kodak. With massive color saturation and the highest dynamic range of any film, Velvia can, as one reviewer wisecracked, fry your retinas. Colors explode. That’s why the Fuji slide film is considered the professional standard for nature and landscape photography. Of course, Velvia isn’t perfect. It has a narrow range of contrast and makes faces look too red (see photo below). In warm-light conditions Velvia works like magic.