Originally Posted by
Jagboi
I mainly do railroad photography, and nothing else makes Canadian Pacific red look right. Since its outdoors, other films or digital can get everything else pretty close, but that's not critical. As long as the trees are green, the eye is happy. However, the red seems to be tricky to render so that you can look at an image and say its right. With Fuji, it tends to go to orange, same with digital. If I correct it, the other colours go off. The now discontinued Ektachrome EPN was a close second because it doesn't have the hyper saturation that most films have. Velvia is terrible, it makes everything look like Disneyland. I probably could get everything right if I spent a lot of time in Photoshop with masking and layers, but why bother when I can do it the easy way?
Of course, if you shoot in RAW and do the legwork once to develop the camera calibration that makes CP Red look "right", then every photo you take after that is good to go. You get hue/saturation adjustments for the primaries, plus a shadow level adjustment.
Plus, a well-built calibration will take the color temperature into account, so your CP red will render accurately whether you're taking a picture at sunrise/sunset, in a railyard lit by floodlights, on a normal sunny day, or in open shade. Show me a film that does that well.