FujiFilm: - Fujichrome Velvia

This IT8 is one of the most recent supplied by Wolf Faust and is based upon a relatively new production technique that he developed to maximise the density range of his targets. In developing this process he spent some considerable time and effort ensuring that the target was as flexible as possible without jeopardising overall quality. Velvia film with normal Fuji development usually allows luminance values from 0.2 to 90. When developed with Kodak chemistry, this typically changes to 0.8 to 92. Wolf made the Velvia targets with a density range of 0.5 to 92. So the target does not cut-off highlights and the 0.3 above the normal Fuji dmax is far from visible and below the typical data resolution of ICC profiles. So while not a perfect dmax in the Fuji sense it is a lot better than anything Kodak or Agfa currently supply.

 

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Before and after comparison of Coloraid.de Target

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Before and after comparison of real world image

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