FujifilmVelvia 100

Fujifilm Velvia 100 (Fujichrome Velvia 100 Professional, code RVP100) is an ISO 100 daylight color slide film for E-6 processing. Fujifilm sells it on “the world’s highest level of color saturation”, the level of the ISO 50 Velvia, with an RMS granularity of 8 [1]. It was launched in 2005 [3]. Fujifilm stopped selling it in the US on July 6, 2021 [2], and it is not the same emulsion as Velvia 100F [5].

Look and color

• Saturation is the point. Fujifilm says the new cyan, magenta and yellow couplers give it the saturation of Velvia 50 [1]. Blue Moon calls high saturation its biggest asset: “there isn’t a film on the market (other than Velvia 50) that will produce as vibrant of colors” [6]. Emulsive writes that it “exaggerates and enhances colors to give them a hearty POP!” [5].
• Against Velvia 50, the sources disagree. Blue Moon finds Velvia 100 the more vibrant [6]. Wikipedia describes saturation comparable to the original Velvia, with improved color accuracy [3]. Emulsive sees a similar look with an extra stop of speed [4]. We found no measurement that settles it.
• A faint magenta bias. Blue Moon notes it “can work especially well for sunsets” [6].
• Skin: the manufacturer and the reviews disagree. The bulletin promises faithful hue reproduction from its color-extension layer, without mentioning skin [1]. Emulsive writes that white skin tones “will shift a little pink or red” and that darker skin tones need slight overexposure [5], and that Velvia 100 handles skin less gracefully than Velvia 100F [4].
• Where it fits. Emulsive recommends it for landscapes and macro, and Velvia 100F for portraits [5].

Tonality

• Curve. On the datasheet graph, D-min is about 0.12 and D-max about 3.4 (red), 3.7 (blue) and 3.8 (green). The midtones are steep, with a slope of about 2 between densities 2.0 and 1.0, and the shadows end on a plateau [1] (our reading of the graph, approximate).
• Contrast. Blue Moon finds “snappy contrast”, “even more so than its original Velvia precursor”, with brighter highlights and punchy shadows [6].
• A narrow latitude. Fujifilm rates push and pull from −1/2 to +1 stop with minimal change in color and gradation, and says the speed can be raised up to +2 stops (EI 400) depending on the scene [1]. Emulsive calls it “a bit picky to shoot” and shoots it at ISO 125, bracketing ISO 80, 100 and 125 [4].
• Long exposures. No correction is needed from 1/4000 s to 1 minute. From 2 minutes, Fujifilm gives 2.5M and +1/3 stop, then +1/2 stop at 4 minutes and +2/3 stop at 8 minutes [1].
• Tungsten. Rated at ISO 32 under 3200 K light with a Wratten 80A filter [1].

Grain and sharpness

• All are read with a 48 µm aperture at a density of 1.0, but the Velvia 100 bulletin says “gross diffuse visual density”, while the Velvia 50 and Provia 100F sheets say 1.0 above D-min and the Kodak sheet uses gross density: close, not identical, conditions [1] [8] [9] [10].
• Grain. Fujifilm calls RMS 8 “one of the finest” levels and credits a crystal technology it calls MSSC, an improvement on the emulsion of Provia 100F [1]. Emulsive sometimes finds the result “clinical” [5].
• Sharpness. 80 lines/mm at low contrast and 160 lines/mm at high contrast [1], the same high-contrast figure as Velvia 50 [8].

Spectral sensitivity

Blue and green each show a shoulder beside the peak, and red is a single broad peak near 645 nm [1]. Measured from the green peak, the blue–green and green–red crossings sit about 0.91 and 0.80 log lower, close to Provia 100F’s 0.95 and 0.75 and less isolated than Velvia 50’s 1.15 and 0.9 [1] [8] [9] (our reading of the three datasheets). The Grain Archive style is not computed from these curves.

Names, status and history

• 2005: launch. Velvia 100 (RVP100) was launched in 2005 as the replacement for the discontinued original Velvia, and is described as designed to be more accurate in color [3].
• Technology. The bulletin credits new cyan, magenta and yellow couplers and a color-extension layer adapted from the correction layer of Velvia 100F [1].
• Not Velvia 100F. Reviews sometimes say “Velvia 100” for both films; Emulsive treats them as two films with different strengths [5].
• Formats. The datasheet lists 135, 120, 220, 4×5 and 8×10 sheets and QuickLoad, and notes that some sizes are not sold in every market [1]. Wikipedia lists the same formats as sold before the US withdrawal [3].
• July 6, 2021: end of US sales. Fujifilm’s US page says it discontinued the film in the US effective immediately [2]. Wikipedia reports regulatory compliance, citing trace amounts of a banned chemical, and notes that it is unclear whether sales continue elsewhere [3].
• Outside the US. Blue Moon wrote in 2022 that it was still available in Canada and Europe [6]. On September 30, 2026, a Berlin retailer listed the 120 roll as sold out and limited to two rolls per person, citing very high demand and limited availability [7]. We found no official Fujifilm statement on the current status outside the US.