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Never shot Astia, but shot Provia on a trek through Yosemite and I consider it a less saturated Velvia. Actually, they're both great films especially for vibrant coloring in landscapes. Many people will probably say Provia is still too much for human skin, though.
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Velvia is the most saturated only surpassed by Fortia SP.
Provia is best to push, provia 400 can easily be pushed 2 stops without loosing much quality.
Astia has the most neutral colors and so is very good for portrait work or landscape. Furthermore Astia has a very wide latitude so, again, it works extremely well with landscape shots.
Provia is the best for long exposures, it has just a minimal color shift, and when you do up to 10min, it looks very well. Velvia & Astia do get slightly greenish. Velvia even more. (see the Fuji docs for what filter to use to compensate).
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Astia is a bit low contrast for outdoor work. And the colors are much more subtle than Provia.
I've shot with Provia for a while for outdoor stuff. It is a pleasant film for the job. And I still have some Astia in the 35mm body I usually shoot outdoors with, but once it's done Velvia 50 is going back in there to stay.
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When I get a roll of Astia back from the lab, I think to myself, why do I bother shooting anything else?
Provia is great, but for some reason, it just doesn't leap off the film for me like Astia does.
I assume you're talking about Provia 100F? Cos Provia 400X is brilliant, especially when pushed to 1600.
Astia's colours, remember, are not just "neutral", which sounds dull, but incredibly accurate. This may or may not be important to you. I find it has plenty of saturation for me, it's not a dull film.
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Astia is my favourite film EVER.. perfect for trips. In my opinion it is more saturated than provia 100f and color balance just great:
my samples:
www.flickr.com/photos/esmuz/sets/72157601342697583/
Velvia is just amazing, specially for nature, it blows up greens , hih contrast strong shadows.. but it´s difficult to scan, In my experience it get super blueish purpled when the sun light is falling.
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astia is my favorite,too. great skin tones but I use it for most everything. I think most people think it just for portraits and photos of snow . when you scan it you can always increase contrast or correct color in photoshop.
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Have you tried flickr tag fight for film comparison? Go here and put Astia vs. Provia to see the difference:
nilswindisch.de/code/flickrtools/tagfight/
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Unless you have to do portraits, Velvia, no question.
among the 2 you are aiming I like Provia much more.
But I mainly shoot B&W ;-))
best
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Provia really does wonderful skin tones. If you are shooting landscape with lots of color, Velvia is good although contrasty. Astia is very neutral and low contrast. Here are some Provia portraits:
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They are all designed for different purposes. Velvia is designed for landscape work where you have lush greens and deep blues. Astia was designed for the fashion industry with its great color and flattering level of contrast. Provia is somewhere in the middle. It's an excellent film, and the only slide film you can get in ISO 400 I am aware of.
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They are all designed for different purposes.
Exactly. Velvia has crazy color and contrast, but is generally too over the top for my taste and subject matter. If I primarily shot landscapes, I migt feel a little different, but I prefer Provia for general use, especially since you have a choice of speeds. Astia is beautiful, but when I want medium to low contrast and neutral color, I generally choose Portra instead.
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Provia is my go-to film, I'm a huge fan of it, generally using the 100F. 100F has ridiculously good reciprocity (no failure out to 2 minutes) excellent blues and yellows and good greens. It's saturated but not Velvia-esque. Surprisingly good skintones for those with non-pale skin.
Velvia's the way to go for green landscapes and is also pretty good for very dark skin tones (Caucasians go lobster-red though and it's a little over-done for most lighter brown skin tones). Really punchy colours and too much contrast for the noonday sun. Tends to a slight magenta cast as well. Note that Velvia 100F is more like a green-biased Provia without the good reciprocity than real Velvia (50 or 100).
Astia is the portrait slide film. Lovely muted tones, great skin tones, even for pale caucasians (always the hardest to nail).
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Astia shows the world as it is.
Provia shows the world at its best.
Velvia shows the world as some people want it to be.
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fotojo The best text I´ve read here for time... GREAT!!
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What Mawz said.
Or - Provia for nightscapes, Astia for portraits.
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I agree with fotojo 100%, couldn't have said it better myself.
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thanks everyone.
and a great quote from fotojo
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I love them all. I consider Provia to be general purpose and the most suited to post production after scanning. No-one has yet mentioned that Provia 100F is the sharpest. For me, Provia is the DSLR-killer.
I didn't like the results I got from Astia shot outside on 35mm, but I love it for 120 and controlled lighting. I have used Astia to do landscapes with my TLR and it just about copes with the sky - ground contrast without filters which is impressive.
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Provia is very nice. If doing serious studio "portrait" work, go with Astia.
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So, where do you guys meter Astia? Do you shoot it a little over or under?
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Generally use an incident meter at the rated ISO
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I've always heard to shoot slide film at or a little under, but have always felt that it just looked underexposed. I know that the highlights are easy to blow on slide film and that this fuels a lot of the concervative approach to exposure, but with such a limited dynamic range the shadow details just disappears. Just wondering what the consensus is.
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I tend to shoot Provia 100F at the rated ISO, but for night work I usually shoot at EI 50 (To bring the midtones up rather than getting correct exposure, it looks better and usually the highlights are going to blow anyways).
Velvia I shoot at box speed, as I do for Astia.
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id say velvia
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@Steve.Korn: Many slide films have little latitude, but such contrast and punch within that latitude. The solution is to control contrast by using ND grad filters for landscapes and with controlled lighting indoors.
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