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Ben F		Landscape help Hi all, just after some good advice from some of you guru's.. Im doing a bit of travel soon and will be taking heaps of landscape images. Im taking my new xpan with 45 and 90mm f4.5 lenses, and plan shooting fuji velvia 50 and provia 100. Im just a little concerned as I prefer shooting my landscapes in low light (ie sunset/sunrise) conditions. These lenses are slow, and so is the film, and I dont want to have to rely on bulb guesswork? Is this likely to be the case, or will I scrape through with 1,2,5,10 second exposures etc??? Ive also read (by a pro photographer) that velvia 50 should/can be pushed to ISO 32 for best results? Is this true, would make life even harder for me if it is. Lastly, I think the reciprocity failure for velvia is 1 second?... So if I meter and it suggests 5 seconds at f11, then it will more than likely be underexposed correct? Thanks for advice :P To love this question, log in above August 12, 2005

Ben F		Also would like to add that artificial lighting will not be an issue. Not really going anywhere near it... To love this comment, log in above August 12, 2005

Jon Close		RE - Velvia 50 Shooting it at ISO 32 would be a 2/3 stop "pull" rather than push. What I've seen most often is that users rate it at ISO 40 (1/3 stop slower) and have it developed normally to keep the colors a little more natural rather than super-saturated. Totally a personal preference, and dependent on the accuracy of your meter. One should do their own testing to see what works best for them. Fujifilm has a data sheet on Velvia at their site, http://www.fujifilm.com/JSP/fuji/epartners/bin/Velvia50AF3-960E_1.pdf, that specifies the reciprocity error corrections - including filters for the color shift - for exposures longer than 1 second. To love this comment, log in above August 12, 2005

Ben F		Hi jon, thanks for your reply. Just curious also if anyone can answer.. exposures longer than 4 seconds will incur a color shift, is this necessarily bad? Given that velvia has a very saturated and "unreal" type result, could the shift in color be somewhat effective???.. or, could it be completely ugly, ridiculous colours. I dont really understand what the results would be. Anyone got pics? Thanks. To love this comment, log in above August 12, 2005

Bob Cammarata		Color shifts on sunrise/sunsets are not always a bad thing. I doubt that the colors would be "ugly or ridiculous" with Velvia 50 unless your exposure times were much longer. Why not shoot Provia 100? You will gain a full stop in exposure and its color reproduction is more true and accurate than Velvia 50. To love this comment, log in above August 12, 2005

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