Eccentric Flower talk:200911/Fun Things

DanLyke:

It used to be that you cold get a little booklet from Fuji that covered all of their films, and a one-page glossy for each film from Kodak, with the response curves of each film to different light wavelengths.

I shot Fuji Velvia for landscapes, because it had really high contrast on the blues and greens, and wavered between Sensia and Fuji Elite Chrome for people shots, because they had much wider contrast ranges, and, as you note, handled their reds differently.

-- 16:31, 2 November 2009 (GMT)

Mel:

I didn't really know a thing about photography back in the day - I mostly had those super-cheap Kodak cameras, for years, and I think the last film camera I had some kind of "point and shoot" that cost $100 or so, by far the most I'd spent on a camera up until then - but somewhere along the line I discovered the color difference with Fujifilm and enthusiastically adopted it. I couldn't have told you what the difference was, I just knew there was a difference and I liked it.

I loved the LOTR thing, of course. (I always love XKCD's charts, anyway.)

-- 06:22, 3 November 2009 (GMT)