Originally posted by ChrisPlatt
Watercolors, I think. Oils are too messy...
Chris
Point of trivia: Much dissing was done upon Panasonic for the 'Renoir effect' of some of their NR schemes. (In the 'Venus Engine,' just one more thing that makes me think I was just born too early for Steampunk) But, Once I had the feel of basically how to get the right 'AE-L' out of the automation, objectionable noise was never a problem, so I just basically turned it off, so I never played with it like the 'Oooh, exotic color film substitute' it was to me, ... but I basically found a lot of OOF smearing to be more pleasant than looking like an overstretched video camera fringing all over the place: (Not that the lovely lens on my Fz-7 does much of that anyway, the way I expose: but it's a concern when you must be conventional on bright days) ...but it actually looked neat.
But it was nice, in that if you were in a situation past the little camera's capabilities, you could crank the NR and make some neat 'oil and watercolors' things happen. I don't recall this ever occuring in terms of a real 'keeper' shot, but it always had neat potential.
Now I have a Pentax, which may look 'grainy,' while stretching high ISO's, but I can get a look I like out of it. (I get banding at like 6400, I think whenever the cell phone is on my person, but I even otherwise like that) but I was never on the 'fine grain' bandwagon, even when that was the tech race of film days. Just... Does it look good.
Also, if you don't like messy, work in acrylics. I was always an oil painter at heart, myself, but acrylics, you can do with ruder facilities.