Accurate skin tones - great for people

Overall, the film has a dull cast with very neutral color rendering

I bought Fuji Astia attracted to the reviews on this site. My thoughts were that the fine grain structure would be attractive and wanted to use a film designed to render skin tones accurately. I suppose that the results do show that skin tones are good, but everything else came out dull. I primarily shoot outdoor shots and love the velvia line - this film is just too dull for me. The results came out with a yellow cast, which may be a result of my exposure being slightly off.

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Fuji Velvia, Provia - although not really similar to Astia

EVERYTHING!

What with this baby?

I use this film exclusively for portraits and have beautiful 12X8 prints made from it. Skin tones are perfect and grain is non existent. Though you have to be right on the money with exposure though whats new with slide film.

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Never used

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Kodak Portra

Best color reproduction I've ever seen. It's so good, that you don't need to go looking for a punchy film to compensate for midtone crush often seen in other films. The grain pattern is way better than in Provia, so sharpness and clarity are superior.

Expensive stuff. From beginning to end, it costs me 35.7 cents per 35mm slide. That's the price for the best, I guess.

I've used primarily color negative film for most of my work (because of my desired proofing methods). But, I wanted something that would make my wintertime snowfield shots extraordinary. I heard Astia was great for whites, so I gave Astia 100F a try. Well... It's amazing! There is more highlight detail than I have seen in any film. The shadow detail is plenty also, which tells me that the colore dye couplers used in the film render flat exposure curves. The colors are about as true to life as I've seen. There is the hitch where a flower might be reflecting UV and the film puts a tinge of magenta into the mix if it's a deep red or purple flower. Violet (which is not purple) renders much better than on Velvia. I shot some pictures of my baby girl, blossoms, bicycles, etc. and found nothing but brilliance.

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No idea.

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Provia 100F

grain-what grain! superb in N+ light subtle in N-light sharp

watch the exposure!

since I switched to usinf Canon EOS, I have been looking for a slide film to take advantage of the superb smoothness and gradation of the lenses, and which would be suitable for landscape and portraits with the accent on editorial work.i was given a couple of rolls by the Fujifilm rep to try. I expected that it would be somwhat soft and pallid for landscape. Compared to Velvia it is. But then, not everybody wants that sort of saturation. I notice that it holds both the shadows and highlights with a superbly smooth tonal gradation. Primary colours are rendered with accuracy and vividness( although reds tend to have that Fuji inclination towards magenta). if there was ever a slide film with a tonal range similar to neg. film this must surely be it!

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Awesome!

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Yo name it

Accurate skin tones, and ideal contrast. Slides are very sharp.

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I was disappointed, using Provia 100F filme, as it mad skin tones a bit blueish or reddish, which bothered me. Upon recommendation of two labs, I switched to Astia 100F. Skin tones are correct and there is almost no film grain even on photos enlarged to 8x10, made from the original slide.

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None needed

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Provia 100F

NO grain Perfect, accurate colors

Price could be lower No ISO 400 version yet

I waitted for this film, my expections were rewarded with a perfect film for me. Scanned at 4000dpi this film shows almost no grain, better than Provia 100F and perfect, accurate colors. For scanning, you need to rate it at ISO 80, not 100. To me, sharpened pictures look as good (or better) than digital Canon 1Ds.

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Not needed

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Provia 100F, Velvia 50, Kodak 100SW/100G/GX, Reala 100

Excellent skin tones Accurate color palette Great for high res scanning (2500+) Tight grain

Critical exposure control required

I have been looking for a suitable film for high resolution scanning of fashion images and nudes for some time. After trying over 10 other films, I've finally settled on the new Astia F. Even with slight overexposure (Rated at 80) there is a great deal of useful information even in the brightest whites which my scanner can easily resolve. Exposing at 80 is also great for maintaining shadow detail. However, like many pro slide films, exposure control is critical and I can not recommend this film for weekend shooters. I've already shot over 800 220 rolls and I'm still happy.

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Great Pronet service

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All reversal films by Kodak, Fuji, Agfa