EliteChrome is my vacation film, my junk film, my family weekend film, and my just plain goof off film. It has a good price and I process a WalMart. I love it. Here are a few:
I always thought I'd want to use a Fujichrome emulsion for their colour reproduction. But somehow the cheap and cheerful Elite Chrome has some hard to describe magic going on -- for me at least -- that makes it much more interesting.
Maybe it's only the fact that it lends itself better at scanning and processing. But even looking at the slides gives me more satisfaction that looking at Provia or Velvia -- maybe because those are more than two times more expensive ...? 😛
I keep hearing that the Elite Chrome films are the consumer versions of the E100 films but I still don't understand just exactly how they differ. Is it sort of like the difference there used to be between the KR64 and PKR64 Kodachromes?
I love the tonal palette of your pictures, and also the level of detail. Would you mind sharing your scanner and scanner setting details? I do have a dedicated Nikon slide scanner but scans don't look anywhere near what you've been posting.
I love the tonal palette of your pictures, and also the level of detail. Would you mind sharing your scanner and scanner setting details? I do have a dedicated Nikon slide scanner but scans don't look anywhere near what you've been posting.
Thanks for the kind remarks. Scanner wise these were both on a Nikon Coolscan LS8000 I purchased about a month ago, scanned at 4000dpi in VueScan, standard white balance, fine scan mode, light ICE, and the film set to Kodak Ektachrome (not that makes really a jot of difference)
The rest is done in Lightroom 2.7 which I get on much better with for general photo editing than I did Photoshop CS3 (which I still use for graphic creation and the CMYK end of the workflow), generally I sharpen to the point that it looks sharp to my eyes on screen, and then reduce it bit so as to not have too grainy a prints or indeed on screen results, my weakness is to sometimes oversharpen 😉
I used to use an 81B filter all the time but now I warm up the pictures a little where necessary in post processing, that way I have a 'neutral' slide to work with to begin with.
The rest is down to my OM2n's amazing meter and a bit of due diligence myself of knowing how to get the most out of Elite Chrome's latitude. (I tend to over-expose by about 1 stop in the evenings to pull out shadow detail in post.)
Say, the color in these shots is wonderful! And as far as I can tell, on my iMac screen, the subjective impression of sharpness seems as good as you could want. Looks like Velvia may have met its match!
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