So when it came down to making prints, providing material to stock agencies, making Blurb books from that era of my work, and gathering images for my successive websites I and others on my behalf scanned a great deal of medium format Velvia- certainly thousand of frames. In the ten years to say 2007 I shot about 5000 frames of medium format slide film a year.
I'm surprised that its taken Fuji so long to act to simplify their Velvia range. Each of the 3 has some supporters though I suspect that RVP has again become the most prominent. Then shortly after, Fuji relaunched Velvia 50 but left the two 100ISO variants in place. Many didn't like it so another film -Velvia 100- that was previously restricted to Japan was launched as well.
The back story here is that years ago the Velvia 50(RVP) flagship product was discontinued and Velvia 100F introduced to replace it. Whilst being a somewhat saturated film it has an unfortunate tendency to render blue skies a little magenta, yellows as orange, oranges as a warm brown, and dull greens as a dirty olive. Velvia 100F ( which I thought has been/is being discontinued ) has IMO a peculiar palette which I dislike. Provia is possbibly the most realistic all-round slide film that Fuji now make, but retains a pleasing degree of contrast and punch. Provia 100F is a little more neutral/less warm than all the Velvia range and has a tendency towards blue shadows in low light that is easily corrected by a warming filter or after a scan. They are different films with somewhat different colour, reciprocity characteristics that you can see by looking for their data sheets on the Fujifilm website.
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