Comments on: Fuji: Velvia No More

By: GWG

GWG — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 08:44:00 +0000

What a shame! Despite all those filter desperately trying to recreate the look, nothing comes close! Guess films shooters will just have to shoot more/start petitions to convince companies to at least keep small production lines going – the impossible project shows it is possible – maybe it’s just yet again a matter of big companies being unable to scale down to smaller production runs properly…

By: Destin Sparks

Destin Sparks — Sat, 21 Jul 2012 05:55:00 +0000

I shoot 120 velvia 50 exclusively. This is not a good sign. Velvia is by far some of the best looking photos you will ever see. http://www.facebook.com/destinsparks has some on there and when my site launches in a couple of weeks. http://www.destinsparks.com

By: Barry Johnson

Barry Johnson — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 17:15:00 +0000

I foresee E-6 dropping off bit by bit in the next two years, sad. Very hard to get color saturation like that with negative films.

By: ajmills

ajmills — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 09:38:00 +0000

Velvia was my favourite film and even though I no longer shoot film, I would be sad to see it go.

Perhaps I’ll dig out one of my film cameras and run a couple of rolls through it.

By: Jens Hamada

Jens Hamada — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:48:00 +0000

does not bother me. it´s obsolet anyway and i don´t shoot film anymore… since 8 years.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:12:00 +0000

Yeah. 100F is the ‘older’ one, but replaced Velvia 50 when it was still just called plain “Velvia” prior to ’05. They then re-released it as the full Velvia 50, but kept the 100s. Now the F is really obsolete. People didn’t like it as much because it wasn’t as saturated, even if it had better skin tones. That’s why I like 100 — it has great skin tones and is still VERY saturated in daylight. And that’ll still be around…for now…

By: Roman

Roman — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:05:00 +0000

I didn’t shoot slides (yet) but I think there was old Velvia100F and new Velvia100(no F). The new one supposedly was design to fix issues with it predecessor. Is Velvia100 discontinued as well?

By: Bert McLendon

Bert McLendon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 23:19:00 +0000

Boo! can’t they keep a small plant and maybe partner with Kodak just to keep a small run of these print films going? c’mon!!! Sure they can’t keep their gigantic plants going to justify the costs, but a small plant??