Re: Re: Photos - 101

**Barry Webb barry@erutan.clara.co.uk>**

At 04:50 PM 5/7/02 -0400, you wrote: 
>
> Dear Kate, 
>     I assume you mean 35mm film for your manual camera.  If so, use Fuji
> Velvia film and a tripod (the film speed is only 50, but the results are
> superb - what most professional garden photographers are now using).  DO NOT
> check the film or loaded camera with your luggage.  The x-ray machines are
> much more intense for checked luggage and can damage film.  Have it with
your
> carry on, and ask for the film to be hand checked.  Not every security
> control area will hand check film, but many will.

I seldom buy film to carry, perhaps a pack of ten just in case. I buy it in
the
country where I'm working and have it processed there too before I return, it
only takes two hours at any decent lab and most can do all that you normally
have done. 

Labs that meet Fuji or Kodak standards have the appropriate badge in their
advertising, in their reception areas and their display panels in Yellow
Pages.
There are some in every reasonably sized city and it's unusual for any of the
labs that process the film to the film makers standard not to carry the
appropriate stocks of raw film too.

But nowadays I find that I'm shooting more and more on negative. It has better
results on conversion to digital files and other potential uses besides being
cheaper both to buy and to process. The stock library I supply converts all
images to digital so the end user isn't interested what the stock was.

Kind regards,

Barry Webb, 
in South Wales, UK.
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