arch. photo film?

Hi everyone,

I am doing some architectural photography and shoot some rvp over the

weekend (about 8 rolls 220)and come to some problems while shooting

(and then obvious on the slide) because of light diferences on the

bldg or vs the sky. Because the weekend was bright and sunny when

there where light differences they would be of two stops or more. I

shoot the velvia at asa 40 and it seemed that the best shoot was the

one the I overexposed it 1/2 to a full stop. The biguest problem was

that when or were the reading was right on it looked great, but when

it wasn't it looked really off.

I got some velvia 100 and provia 100 and was wondering what are the

experiences with them out there and how they weigh next to the E100G

or GX. I also got some NPC (free from fuji) and would like to get

some feedback about these against Reala 100, Superia 100 and the

Portra. I know that most of the prints will be digitized and printed

at 23x31 and I wanted to get some ideas on what to shoot next to

avoid these problems when lighting is hash.

Thank You

Because of the typically harsh lighting I encounter here in Texas from spring through fall I've settled on Provia 100F as my standard slide film for 35mm architectural photography. It's similar enough in overall look and resolution to Velvia, but more forgiving of contrasty lighting.

In medium format I prefer Reala, which has a color palette comparable to Fuji slide films but is much better at taming contrasty light while also producing excellent color saturation when printed on the Fuji Frontier machine.