About 5-years-ago, having bought a Fujifilm X-Pro2 camera, c/w Fuji’s film simulation profiles, I decided to do a comparison between the simulation and the real thing: Fujichrome Velvia 50.

I was a fan of Velvia (and Provia) film from release, in the ’90s. I used it on adventures such as my 2-month northern cycling adventure, in 1994 — a trip sponsored by Kodak, who provided me a couple of dozen rolls of their new reversal film, Ectachrome Lumiere.

These transparency (slide) films are processed using E-6 chemistry, which has become a bit of a specialty process in the digital age. My roll of Velvia was sent off to the mainland and it took well over a month to turn around. But that wasn’t the real problem with this little experiment, as I reveal in the video  above.