Colour film for high quality landscape scans

[alegalle]

Hi there,

I need to do some 13x26 inch digital prints of landscapes from a crop of a 6x9 colour negative.
In terms of scanning printing I have the equipment and the knowledge to do it well,
however I usually shoot just black and white, so I don't know my colour films too well these days.

I wonder if someone here can suggest a colour negative film with high resolving power and high
sharpness for this purpose? I want to use negative film rather than slide to have wider latitude to record a wider dynamic range, then play with contrast
and saturation in photoshop.

Can anyone help? Or am I barking up the wrong tree and its time to break out the velvia?

Thanks,

Andy

 

[pvdhaar]

You could give Fuji Superia Reala a go. It's available in 120. It's got plenty detail, accurate colours, and is good for realistic to romantic landscapes. It doesn't have the pop of velvia though, but then again just about nothing has that..

 

[wlewisiii]

6x9? Only one thing for it - Fuji Reala CS. It's a delightful ISO100 color neg film that manages to be reasonably saturated for landscapes with out blowing skin tones or being oversaturated like, especially in my experiance, some of the chrome films. Velvia is good and interesting in it's own way, but if you want to have people in the image to provide scale it just won't do skin tones right (anyone's skin tones - again, in my experiance).

Hope this helps,

William

 

[alegalle]

Thanks for the replies guys.
People wont feature much, so im not so fussed about skin tones.
Sounds like Reala has got the votes so I think I will try that, anyone have
any experience in this sort of enlargement from reala negatives? I know from
6x9 its going to look pretty good anyway, but I want this to be "really" good
(if you'll excuse the pun)

Thanks
Andy