12 Facts About Velvia

Velvia is a brand of daylight-balanced color reversal film produced by the Japanese company Fujifilm.

Velvia was introduced in 1990 and quickly became a "must try" film, giving Kodachrome 25 some stiff competition as the industry standard in high-definition color film.

Kodachrome 25 had previously been considered the film to which all other films had been compared, and cannot fairly be compared to Velvia, as Kodachrome is an entirely different process, in which the image is produced with "color clouds" more so than grain.

Velvia has very saturated colors under daylight, high contrast, and exceptional sharpness.

Velvia 50 was reintroduced, on the new film base, in 2007 after announcements under the provisional name Velvia II.

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The original Velvia had been discontinued because of difficulties in obtaining some of the raw materials needed to make the emulsion.

Velvia 100 is about as saturated as the original version but was designed to more accurate in color reproduction.

Velvia 100 was introduced in 2005, to replace the discontinued original Velvia .

Velvia 100F offers saturated colors, better color fidelity and higher contrast.

Velvia 100F is less saturated than RVP50 and is accurate in color rendition with the exception of yellow.

Original Velvia suffered much more from reciprocity failure than most other films.

Velvia 100 is much better with long exposures: no reciprocity failure compensation is required for exposures shorter than 1 minute.