Subject:	My advice (+)
Author:	drdread
Date:	8/7/2002 2:20:11 PM
Message:

My favorite all-around negative film remains Kodak Royal Gold (formerly known as Ektar, and a distinct offering from "Kodak Gold"). I keep hearing people say it has been discontinued, but new rolls of it keep showing up at the grocery store. Go figure.

After Royal Gold, FujiPress is probably the best print film out there.

But honestly, print film lets you sweep a lot of mistakes under the rug, and makes it difficult to know if you have botched something. Worse, if you mismatch your strobe and your background exposures, print film makes it tough to tell *which* exposure you nuked. Slide film is still the Oracle: all-knowing, all-telling; one glance at the slide will tell you if either strobe or background is screwed up -- or both! My advice: start with Fuji Provia F or Kodak E100VS (aka EliteChrome ExtraColor) to nail down your exposures.

Good luck,
D

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