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Great shots.  The first one has a bizarre quality to it, it doesn't quite look real. Amazing how reality can be manipulated with photos.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 05:15:18 AM EST
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I was just going to comment that the top ones colours just looked computer animated, but you beat me to it.

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by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 06:54:34 AM EST
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Actually, I did very little to the colors.  This is what you get when you use a highly saturated chrome (slide) film like Fuji Velvia.  Same with some of the sky shots.  You won't get this with negative film unless you use a polarizer (which I didn't)

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 10:28:07 AM EST
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Back when I still made photos on film, I once took some Fuji films (but not slide) on a vacation, and the pictures looked over-saturated like yours. (Didn't use Fuji before or after, so can't say if it is manufacturer-related or type-specific.)

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by DoDo on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 10:40:05 AM EST
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It's mostly Velvia-specific. For example Fuji Astia is quite neutral, and good for skin tones and such where you don't need oversaturated colors.

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by tzt (tztmail at gmail dot com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 01:15:27 PM EST
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Velvia is/was very popular with pro landscape photographers because of the extra saturation.  Though everyone knows it oversaturates, the important thing was that it sold lots of pictures. I chose it for the balloon festival because I anticipated/hoped to see lots of color and I wanted the balloons to really pop.  These were taken before I even dreamed of photoshop.

Now, the other caveat I would make about these pics is that they were scanned to digital and my scanner has lots of hardware and software controls.  A couple (not all) of the scans were very undersaturated to begin with (my lack of mastery of the scanner) so rather than rescan, I added back in some saturation in photoshop.  However, the actual slides look very saturated on the light table and I think the scans I put on the blog are fairly close to the originals.  I still like film very much, but the new digital cameras are very appealing.

Has anyone seen the new Nikon D300?  

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 03:07:28 PM EST
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The D300 sounds so good. It really seems to sort the little bugs and not quite there features of the D200.

My eye is on the D3 (in my dreams).

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 03:26:09 PM EST
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What does the D300 sell for in the UK?  Here it will be about $1900.00.  They just keep getting more and more expensive.  That's about what the old top of the line F5 went for.

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sat Nov 3rd, 2007 at 10:09:56 PM EST
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Around 1,200 pounds sterling = $2462 for body only. ($1900 is only  about 910 pounds)
D200 has dropped in price a lot though, not surprisingly.

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by In Wales (inwales aaat eurotrib.com) on Sun Nov 4th, 2007 at 03:41:09 AM EST
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Well, unless you have to pay a large amount of customs on imports, maybe you could think about mail ordering expensive items from one of the large New York electronic stores. (See www.BHphotovideo.com, for example). Three hundred quid is no small amount.

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by Gringo (stargazing camel at aoldotcom) on Sun Nov 4th, 2007 at 10:32:06 AM EST
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