I have been taking colour slides since the '50s with various equipment but cannot get the same colour accuracy as I used to get with Agfa reversal film. I always found Kodachrome 'jazzy' and not true but with a very high quality of image. Is there another reversal film which I can use today which will give truer colors ?

-- Anthony Brookes (gdz00@lineone.net), December 24, 2000

Answers

Agfa's current RSX100 is excellent but not well-distributed in the US. Fuji Astia or Provia 100F is excellent, as is the current Kodak 100, though I can't recall what they call it this month.

-- Joe Brugger (jbrugger@teleport.com), December 24, 2000.

IMO, Velvia is a pretty accurate "saturated" color slide film. Aside providing bold (yet accurate) "bright" colors, Velvia also offers very beautiful and rich earth tones. Shoot some Velvia and decide for yourself whether you like it (if you haven't already). It pushes extremely well to at least one stop, and in fact I usually rate Velvia at 100 ISO for a 1 stop push.

-- kurt heintzelman (heintzelman.1@osu.edu), December 24, 2000.

If you like true colors, try Kodak EPN. This film is designed for true color rendition.

-- Terry Carraway (TCarraway@compuserve.com), December 26, 2000.

excuse me - how can anyone come up with the monotonous 'velvia rules' song when it's TRUE colors that are asked for???????

-- volker (plaschke@gmx.net), May 09, 2001.