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Fujifilm Velvia: Everything I've Learned

June 19, 2016 by Tony Santo

It has taken me years to overcome some of the obstacles associated with shooting Fujifilm Velvia because information on how to use and shoot this type of film is sparse. Through careful experimentation, I have learned the quirks of Velvia 50 and Velvia 100 and put together a video guide that presents my findings and techniques in a complete package. While there is always room for human error, these techniques have allowed me to produce much more consistent and reproducible results.

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E-6 Processing for slide film

February 14, 2016 by Tony Santo

Gathering information about developing color reversal film so that I could learn the E-6 process turned out to be more challenging that I thought, even with a powerful search engine such as Google. I searched for weeks for a concise, comprehensive source of information and only found scattered pieces of the puzzle. I came across so-called hobby kits that use a 3-bath E6- process but I was interested in the exact process that my former lab uses; a 6-bath E-6 process. Once I researched all of the scattered information, I decided that there may be others in a similar position that would benefit from a detailed "how-to-guide" that explained the process from start to finish.

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