Good Old Faithful Velvia

<p>Mauro,</p>

<p>I've been all over the map in my shooting habits lately. I discovered slide film (Velvia specifically) around a year ago; I found our Texas winter last year a perfect match for the film. I even started processing it myself. Over the summer I went back to my roots in the b&w darkroom for one reason or another. Since I've been back home from the summer I've been shooting Portra and basically hate all of the color in my scans. I miss Velvia. I've switched to a Mamiya 7 and am a bit worried about losing that stop from my Hassy 2.8 for low light.<br>

Anyway, I happened upon your celebration of Velvia tonight when pondering slide film. I just wanted to thank you for re-convincing me. I'll try to live without those 2 extra stops of 400NC in the coming months. The fact that your post turned into a debate is a bit distressing. I'm not a professional photographer, I'm an artist and don't plan on making much money anyway. Shooting film is about slowing down and picking shots.</p>

<p><strong>Fayetteville</strong><br>

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<p>Alex</p>

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<p>The only wise path to film is not out of ignorance of digital but it is from having made the trip to digital and decided to come back to film.</p>

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<p>That's what I did.<br>

I'n not sure if I would describe myself as wise but I know which process I prefer.</p>

<p>I'm a really late comer to this thread. All I can say is that the Velvia scans look fabulous!. <br>

On a side note, I don' t know what's wrong with this guy call Daniel Lee Taylor. Just imagine what would be the response for the typical digital gear heads if someone were to jump into a digital forum and say this:<br>

Shot 1, 2, 3 can be easily done with Velvia, shot 4,5,6 can be done better with Kodak Gold 100. Even Kodak Gold 100 is better than D-3x yada yada yada....<br>

I guess he must have really really bad encounter with either film users or some nasty experience when using film..... Muahahahahahaha....</p>