This is a big part of the reason I went digital. In fact, since doing so I have paid $0 for processing, many thousands of pictures ago. I had some color film in my freezer I got somewhere but I tossed it a few months ago.1 roll of Velvia 50: $7
Cost to develop that roll: $8.50
At that price, you can only shoot about 900 pictures before you have spent more in film and developing costs than the price of a DSLR.
i would shoot a lot more film (4x5) if i still had access to a darkroom to develop/print
Explain why the hell you'd want to shoot film and then scan it, which is nothing more than taking a digital capture of a piece of film? A film scaner *is* a digital camera.
I'd rather take a digital capture of the original scene than a digital capture of a second generation copy made of industrial film dye.
Anybody who makes up these bizarre myths about B&W film needs to view the callenge galleries over on Dpreview and note the amazing quality of monochrome digital work mostly taken by amatuers. It's very imressive, and it surpasses anything I've seen posted by disgruntled film shooters in a long time.
The one on the left is film, because Velvia have an inherit high saturation look and extra blue/ purple boost. Agfachrome (could be Vista) is the only other film that hyper boost purple colour even more so than Velvia if I remember correctly.alright, I spent hours doing this, but here it is!!!!
One of the images used nik software's "Fujichrome Velvia 100" preset to simulate the "actual" fujichrome veliva 100 positive slide film. Which is digital simulating velvia 100, which is the actual film?
Velvia 50 is among the top few film that was developed, so as Kodachrome and Agfachrome.Slide film has a "look" that cannot yet be duplicated. For instance, FUJI Velvia 50 is unsurpassed for landscape photography, especially in medium format.
Both have pretty much the same resolve power, however IMHO 50 ISO produce slightly better colour saturation (even more than derate 100 ISO by 1 stop to 50 ISO).The one on the Right was film answer was revealed toward the top!
I believe Velvia 100 is superior to velvia 50, mainly because it has finer grain, and better dynamic range. I use to shoot Velvia quite often, until I tried 100, then realized 100 was even better (IMHO) than 50. I guess because it's newer as well too.... But anyways, there will always be arguments that people like 100 over 50, and 50 over 100. I like 100 over 50, but that's just me.
But yeah, Right is Film, left is 5D Mark 2 w/ 24-70 f/2.8L @ 28mm f/16 right is nikon FE 28mm f/2.8 @ 28mm f/16
Nik Software is used to simulate the Velvia in Post