lynnef (04/18/83)
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I went and shot a roll of Kodak VR 1000 last week. All of the pictures
were taken inside, mostly without flash and no filters (except a Skylight 1A).
This is not the best film for taking closeup pictures of people because it
is quite grainy.
The colors came out just fine (no yellowish tinges), although not as intense
as Kodacolor II (my film of choice).
I very likely won't use it again because most of the pictures I take are of
people, fairly close up.
Lynne Fitzsimmons
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#R:teklabs:-191500:ccvaxa:20000004:000:455 ccvaxa!kravitz Apr 26 23:49:00 1983 I have taken two rolls of VR 1000 film under a variety of lighting conditions. Not all the prints came out with good color balance, however. Ones shot under mercury vapor street lights, flourescent light, and high temperature tungsten came out fine. Ones shot in low temperature tungsten printed with terrible color balance, in spite of the lab trying several times to compensate. Anyone have any ideas why ? Jody Kravitz pur-ee!uiucdcs!ccvaxa!kravitz
wally (04/29/83)
This is in response to the article that said pictures in low temp. tungsten light turned out bad but ones taken in high temp light turned out fine. I don't know the difference between high and low temp. tungsten, but I do know VR 1000 was designed for daylight. A Pop Photo review said that VR 1000 didn't have the color range to take pictures in tungsten light and allow for color correction in printing. They said that VR 100 and VR 200, which will come out later this year, will be much better in that respect.
bdot@hogpd.UUCP (06/22/83)
I just bought some of the new fast film. Anything out of the ordinary that I should know about its use? From people who have used it, how did you like the quality of the photos? john
tom@rlgvax.UUCP (06/23/83)
I have shot one roll of it taking pictures of whitewater action scenes.
It really helps out on sub-optimal days and lighting conditions. I was
very pleased by the color and quality of the photos (though I haven't blown
any up yet).
One note -- the instructions on the VR1000 film warn you that the film is
very sensitive to x-rays and you should not let it get zapped in the airport
security checks. Take heed! Someone recently asked if checked baggage
ever gets x-rayed by airlines. I have not seen a reply yet. Anyone Know?
- Tom Beres
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