The colors look like what Alice saw down the rabbit hole, and they are beautiful. The slides I get back of landscapes look like matte paintings.

none-as others have said, though, DON'T use this for portraits, and be careful with some wildlife subjects

This film can make intermediate photographers look like pros in some cases. You only need to properly compose the scene using your imagination, use a great metering camera or external meter, and this film does the rest. I shot my first roll of Velvia 3 years ago while at Estes Park in the Rockey Mountains. Even now when I look at them, the colors still astound me.

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Is there anything that compares to this worth trying?

E-6 process, excellent grain and medium-high contrast.

Bad for skin tones and actual ISO lower than advertised 50. Price on the expensive side.

An excellent film if you know what you are dealing with. Very fine grain which lends itself to large prints from the slide. I use it for outdoor photography when I want vibrant, vivid and medium-to-high colour saturation.

As everyone already mentioned, its strength is color and sharpness. Grains are indeed smooth. It handles greens, white, and blues very well. Pastels were excellent. If it is used properly (i.e. using a sturdy tripod and avoiding excessive contrast), Velvia will be one of the finest tool in photography.

I won't emphasis anything regarding potrait applications using this film. I assume that everyone, who is doing a lot of serious photography and keeping themself updated with literature, should know the application for Velvia. Although this film is very good at recording primary colors and pastels, I recently observed that Velvia can't record the details in monochromatic color, such as a solid red rose. Just for comparison, if you want to record such details in monochromatic object, I would suggest to use Kodak E100VS in order to get similar color saturation (of course with the expense of the grain).

Velvia will always be in my bag. The only way you will get satisfying results with Velvia is to use the film in proper techniques. I don't see the necessary to rate Velvia at different exposure index. For me, it's simple. If I want to create blurring effect on water falls or rivers, I'll rate Velvia to lower exposure index (without pull processing). If I need a little bit of speed, I'll go with EI 50 or 100 (with push process, of course). For me, Velvia provides the benefit for being able to move along these exposure indexes. However, I seldom push Velvia. If I need a 100 speed, I'll go with E100VS.

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* Color with snap
* sharpness of K25
* one stop faster than K25

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I used to be a Kodachrome 25 zealot, preaching the wonders of the film and praising it's sharpness to all photographers. Until one day I decided to try Velvia and luck would have it saw the light. And unlike K64 it was not an oncoming "green" train. I completely switched over to Velvia that year and never looked back. I use it for nearly everything including portraits and fine art. I can only compare it to a stereo system, it is one thing to adjust the sound to faithfully reproduce the recording and it is quite another to kick up the volume and Rock.

Velvia Rocks!

It does very well with man made colors and can make a nearly dead lawn appear spring time fresh and green. But honestly if you want accuracy shoot Reala print film but if you like the way the world looks with slide film, with snap and contrast, and not that bland nice and even looking print film world, I highly recommend trying a few rolls of Velvia ASAP.

After all these years it still Rocks!

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This film remains my all time fovorite. While some may feel that the colors are too punchy,i.e. vivid, this film comes the closest to how I visually see color. Even given its narrow latitude I will often use it in bright sunlight for this reason. It also has the ability to give colors a certain luminous quality on low contrast days that no other film that I have used can duplicate. Of course the grain is very fine and the sharpness is very high.

This film has a lot of contrast, but can be used in bright sun if you don't mind your shadows going black.
Not a recommended film for portraiture, the skin comes out too red.
A very slow film, I shoot it at ISO 40.

Super film for the right application.

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It produces vibrant colors, but captures subtleties. Has a very fine grain pattern and very high contrast. Pushes well to ISO 100.

It is somewhat slow, prepare to lug out your tripod if you want to shoot when its partly cloudy. Not like you would use this at noon with no clouds in the sky, the contrast will make you faint. It also has a pretty small exposure latitude. Makes people look sunburned. Needs refrigeration I think, but I'm paranoid. It's also sort of expensive.

This is THE film for outdoor and macro photography. I don't even see why other film companies make 50 speed films. Just the fact that Vevia exists should stop any company from making a 50 speed film. There is just no competition in terms of colors saturation and sharpness, except for Provia 100F.

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Every 100 speed and slower slide flim made by Kodak and Fuji.

Beautiful saturation, nice contrast, fine grain.

Can be very harsh is shot during mid-day sun. You'll probly need a tripod.

Velvia is a great film for nature/outdoor pictures. I wouldn't recommend it for potraits. I rate it at the specified 50. Velvia is a great film with good saturation and grain are performs well when used for the right projects.

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Best fine grain film on the maket
I converted toFuji many years ago when i got fed-up of the coldness of the competition

Bright directional sunlight

Many people complain about having to use a tripod!! If you want top quality results then think like the professionals and use any / all available tools to get the job done properly.
Ref: Weaknesses. This is not really a weakness but more a quirk of the film.
Shadows and contrast can be quite contrasty if you expose at the recommended 50. What I always do in bright sunlit situations is to rate the film at 25. This will totally eliminate excessive contrast but will still retain the correct saturation of the scene. When the lighting changes back to a more neutral level, expose for 50.

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Resolution
Colour saturation
Very punchy
Fine grain
Best nature photography film
Vibrant

Skin tones
Limited push/pull
Speed in faltering light demands very fast lenses

The standard in outdoor photography. Fantastic wildlife enlargements. Beautiful landscapes. First choice in the bush.

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Bright snappy colours, reasonably fine grain, the highest sharpness of the E6 films.

Totally inaccurate colour rendering, cannot be shot at 50 ASA and get any shadow detail, skin tones (caucasion) are way off the mark, and colours in general are just wild. Finally, resolution is soft compared to Kodakchrome.

I read the posts here and wonder what everyones points of reference are? I shoot pretty much 35mm Kodakchrome 64 exclusively, with prime top of the line Leica lenses. My initial review of my film when I get it back from the lab. is with a 10X Schneider loupe, - not on a light table, it creates too much light scatter, but using a point light source. I sometimes use Velvia for the quick turnaround from an E6 lab. and the results are always the same, - better resolution than other E6 films, but not in the same league as K64. Kodakchome has a micro contrast that has not been, and may in fact never be matched by any E6 film! No film is perfect, and certainly K64 has its inaccuracies as well, but it looks like a realife standard by comparison to this totally wild, goosed-up Velvia. If you have quality glass and want to see how good it really is check out K64 first, and then compare Velvia. If you are using lower quality zoom lenses, you probably won't be able to see the difference!

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